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sorry for the possible yartnicity® of this:
neighborhood - falsehood
where comes the hoodness?
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Hood: Something that covers, I would guess.
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Faldage could tell you better than I can. But Germanic languages have endings that make
words into abastractions. For instance "-heit" Frei plus heit makes Freiheit = Freedom
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The -hood in question means condition, state or quality; an instance of the specified state or quality; or a group sharing the specified state or quality.
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ok, sounds reasonable.  thanks!
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It also shows up in the following word:
"maid·en·head (mdn-hd)
n.
1. The condition or quality of being a maiden; virginity. 2. The hymen.
[Middle English maidenhed : maiden, maid; see maiden + -hed, -hood.]"
(from American Heritage Dictionary 4th ed.)
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like childhood--is a state of being the humams pass through on the way to adulthood.
a neighbor is a person, but a neighborhood is the collective state or quality of your neighbors... cool, faldage! i had never realized that.. it gives the slang term in the hood a validity, linguistically.
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...and then there's Robinhood [wasn't he Robyn Hode way back?] and Little Red Riding...
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About The Pocket Oxford Dictionary of Current English
from Oxford University Press
-hood suffix
forming nouns: 1 of condition or state (childhood; falsehood). 2 designating a group (sisterhood; neighbourhood). [[Old English]]
The Pocket Oxford Dictionary of Current English, © Oxford University Press 1996
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brotherhood, motherhood, fatherhood
And then there's hood as in gangster or punk...he's a real hood!
from the AHD:
hood2 ( P ) Pronunciation Key (hd)
n. Slang
A hoodlum; a thug.
A rowdy or violent young person. <
What does the OED have to say about the etymology of hoodlum, tsuwm?
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