heermoes – Dutch noun declension

Noun: heermoes
Gender: Neuter Hyphenation:

uncountable

Sample Sentences

Nouns inflected like heermoes

groepsimmuniteit, wintergroen, nixtamalisatie, homocultuur, onbesprokenheid, sesaté, sepsis, sterfelijkheid, seleen, stoomkracht, beeldhouwkunst, clitoridectomie, kontlikkerij, concurrentie, sardis, satijn, militaria, santen, staatsterreur, classicisme, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

Uncertain. The first element may derive from Proto-West Germanic *haru (“bitter, sharp”); the second may be moes, but in a sense more comparable to that found in German Gemüse (“vegetable”); the compound might then originally have meant "bitter vegetable". See: German Nouns 'Gemüse'.

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