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The word ending (or the suffix ) -heit has developed in connection with adjective stems in the Old High German period to the most popular way to form so-called abstractions ( property nominalization ). Even then the suffix -ung was in competition with -heit , but it was preferably attached to verbal stems ( event nominalization ).

The ending -heit comes from the Germanic word * haidu- (way appearance) from that in the Old High German to heid / uniform was, and in the 8th and 9th centuries as a translation for the Latin words persona and sexus could serve. In Middle High German , heath / heit is rarely used as an independent word and is reduced to the meaning of “manner”, “quality”. As a suffix it appeared very early next to and -ida , which it soon replaced.

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