Etymology

haughtiness

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Today it means: The state or property of being haughty; arrogance, snobbery. Full definition →

Middle English hauteynesse ← Old French hautain
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The story

  1. Middle English · derived from-nesse
  2. Old French · derived fromhautain
  3. Middle English · derived fromhautein“proud, haughty”
  4. Middle English · inherited fromhauteynesse
  5. English todayhaughtiness

From Middle English hauteynesse, hautenesse, from Middle English hautein (“proud, haughty”), from Old French hautain + Middle English -nesse. Reanalysed in Modern English as haughty + -ness.

Words from the same roots

Middle Englishhautein all →

haughty

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.