-nesse

-nesse

1. Obsolete spelling of -ness.

• -ness, -nes, -nece, -nesce, -nisse, -nis, -næse, -næs, -nez

From Old English -nes, from Proto-West Germanic *-nassī, from Proto-Germanic *-inassuz.

• IPA^(key): /-nɛs(ə)/

-nesse (plural -nessen or -nesses)

1. Affixed to adjectives to form abstract nouns which denote a quality, state or condition.

• English: -ness
• Scots: -nes

• -hede

• “-nes(se, suf.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 9 April 2018.

• IPA^(key): /nes.se/

-nesse

1. inflection of -nes:
   1. accusative/genitive/dative singular
   2. nominative/accusative plural