The story
- Proto-Indo-European*keyt-
- Proto-Germanic*haiduz
- English today-hood
From Middle English -hode, from Old English -hād, from Proto-West Germanic *-haidu, from Proto-Germanic *haiduz (compare -head). Cognate with German -heit, -keit, Dutch -heid, Afrikaans -heid, Swedish -het, Elfdalian -iet, Norwegian Bokmål -het, Norwegian Nynorsk -heit, Danish -hed. The Swedish, Elfdalian, Norwegian and Danish endings were borrowed from Middle Low German.
Words from the same roots
Proto-Germanic*haiduz all →
hadehede
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.