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-witz

-witz suffix: added to a stem to form a patronymic or matronymic surname.

Suffix

-witz

  1. Added to a stem to form a patronymic or matronymic surname.

Origin of -witz

Borrowed from German -witz.

Questions about -witz

What does -witz mean?
-witz means added to a stem to form a patronymic or matronymic surname.
What part of speech is -witz?
-witz is a suffix.

Words near -witz in the dictionary

  1. -wear
  2. -wich
  3. -wick
  4. -wide
  5. -wise
  6. -witz
  7. -woman
  8. -women
  9. -work
  10. -worth
  11. -worthy

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: -witz (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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