־סטווע
Appearance
Yiddish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- ־צטווע (-tstve)
Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Polish -stwo, Belarusian -ства (-stva), Russian and Ukrainian -ство (-stvo), ultimately from Proto-Slavic *-ьstvo. Alternative form derives from the rebracketing when suffixed onto a word ending in -t, as seen in Belarusian -цтва (-ctva), Polish -ctwo, Ukrainian -цтво (-ctvo).
Suffix
[edit]־סטווע • (-stve) f or n
- suffix appended to nouns or adjectives to create an abstract noun denoting a relation, social status, scientific discipline, quality or state: -hood, -ness, -ship, -ity
Derived terms
[edit]Categories:
- Yiddish terms borrowed from Polish
- Yiddish terms derived from Polish
- Yiddish terms borrowed from Belarusian
- Yiddish terms derived from Belarusian
- Yiddish terms borrowed from Russian
- Yiddish terms borrowed from Ukrainian
- Yiddish terms derived from Russian
- Yiddish terms derived from Ukrainian
- Yiddish terms derived from Proto-Slavic
- Yiddish lemmas
- Yiddish suffixes
- Yiddish feminine suffixes
- Yiddish neuter suffixes
- Yiddish suffixes with multiple genders