Examples:
cartography
card
archaeology
archetype
monarchy
legal
loyal
purse
personal
cinema
kinase
car
carpenter
hippopotamus
Mesopotamia
dative
data
date
...
Middle English
-nesse
←
Old English
-nes
(inherited)
←
Proto-Germanic
*-inassuz
(inherited)
←
Proto-West Germanic
*-nassī
(inherited)
→
English
-ness
(mention)
→
English
wilderness
(mention)
→
English
haughtiness
(derived)
→
English
lightliness
(mention)
→
Middle English
undedlynesse
(affix)
→
Middle English
ferdness
(affix)
→
Middle English
savenes
(affix)
→
Middle English
alonnesse
(suffix)
→
Middle English
swetnesse
(affix)
→
Middle English
behovelynesse
(suffix)
→
Middle English
thikkenes
(affix)
→
Middle English
wickednes
(affix)
→
Middle English
inwardnesse
(affix)
→
Middle English
towardnesse
(affix)
→
Middle English
mazidnesse
(affix)
→
Middle English
hethenesse
(affix)
→
Middle English
lewednesse
(affix)
→
Middle English
schyrnesse
(affix)
→
Middle English
ærfeðnesse
(affix)
→
Middle English
burynes
(affix)
→
Middle English
graciousnesse
(affix)
→
Middle English
arghnes
(affix)
→
Middle English
depnesse
(affix)
→
Middle English
oddenesse
(affix)
→
Middle English
sorinesse
(affix)
→
Middle English
sorenes
(affix)
→
Middle English
symplenesse
(affix)
→
Middle English
jelousnesse
(affix)
→
Middle English
swartnesse
(affix)
→
Middle English
stiffenes
(affix)
→
Middle English
crabbednes
(affix)
→
Middle English
egernesse
(affix)
→
Middle English
esynesse
(affix)
→
Middle English
hevynesse
(affix)
→
Middle English
monfulnesse
(affix)
→
Middle English
endelesnes
(affix)
→
Middle English
rethnes
(affix)
→
Middle English
cruelnesse
(affix)
→
Middle English
rebelnes
(affix)
→
Middle English
gredynesse
(affix)
→
Middle English
nakednesse
(affix)
→
Middle English
þesternesse
(affix)
→
Middle English
drerynesse
(affix)
→
Middle English
modinesse
(affix)