Etymology

provincehood

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Today it means: The status of being a province. Full definition →

Proto-Germanic *haiduz ← Proto-Indo-European *keyt- ← English province
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The story

  1. Englishprovince
  2. Proto-Indo-European*keyt-
  3. Proto-Germanic*haiduz
  4. English todayprovincehood

From province + -hood.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.