Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *-inassuz Scott K. Shay Wardja Press https://protogermanic.org/pgmc_inassuz

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 Nominale Stammbildungslehre der altgermanischen Dialekte Friedrich Kluge Max Niemayer 1899 Germanische Sprachwissenschaft III: Wortbildungslehre Hans Krahe Wolfgang Meid Walter de Gruyter 1969 The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English, 2) Don Ringe Ann Taylor Oxford Oxford University Press 2014 From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic (A Linguistic History of English, 2nd edition) Don Ringe Oxford Oxford University Press 2017 -nis derives nouns from verbs or adjectives; in some cases the suffix is feminine -ness appended to adjectives to form nouns meaning 'the state of being (the adjective)', 'the quality of being (the adjective)', or 'the measure of being (the adjective)' *-tu-s forms nouns from verb roots -nis -ment, -ation, -ness
-inassuz i.nɑs.suz ᛁᚾᚨᛊᚢᛉ
suffix noun masculine u-stem forms abstract nouns denoting a state, condition, office, practice, action, or domain associated with the base; ‘-ness, -hood, -ship, -dom’ From Proto-Germanic *-inōną + *-assuz. It is a result of reanalysis of forms in which the suffix *-assuz was added to weak or denominative verbal stems in *-inō-. The suffix *-assuz probably arose from the coalescence of stem-final *-at- with the inherited nominal suffix *-tu-s. Forms of the type *X-in-assuz were reinterpreted as containing a single suffix *X-inassuz Kluge 1899: 69–70 Krahe & Meid 1969: 159–62 Ringe 2017: 325. This suffix became extremely productive in the West Germanic languages (cf. English -ness, Dutch-nis, and German -nis) Ringe & Taylor 2014: 131–32.
-inassuz
-inassiwiz
-inassų
-inassunz
-inassauz
-inassiwǫ̂
-inassiwi
-inassumaz
-inassū
-inassumiz
-inassu
-inassiwiz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī, *-nassi, *-nussi Old Dutch -nissi, -nussi Middle Dutch -nisse Dutch -nis Afrikaans -nis
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī, *-nassi, *-nussi Old English -nes, -ness, -nis, -niss, -nys, -nyss Middle English -nesse, -ness, -nes, -nece, -nesce, -nisse, -nis, -næse, -næs, -nez English -ness
Scots -nes
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī, *-nassi, *-nussi Old Frisian -nisse, -ense Saterland Frisian -nisse, -nis
West Frisian -ens
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī, *-nassi, *-nussi Old High German -nissi, -nussi Middle High German -nisse, -nusse, -nüsse German -nis, -niß, -nüß, -nuß
Yiddish ־ניש (-nish)
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī, *-nassi, *-nussi Old Saxon -nessi, -nissi, -nussi Middle Low German -nisse Low German -nisse, -nis
Gothic -𐌹𐌽𐌰𐍃𐍃𐌿𐍃 (-inassus)