Dutch

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Etymology

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From ont- (un-, de-) +‎ heem (home). Coined in 1944 as a translation of English displaced person. While it resembles a participle morphologically, it does not derive from the verb onthemen, which has in fact seen some (rare) usage but is itself a back-formation from this adjective.

Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -eːmt

Adjective

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ontheemd (not comparable)

  1. (said of people) displaced, deprived of a home

Declension

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Declension of ontheemd
uninflected ontheemd
inflected ontheemde
comparative
positive
predicative/adverbial ontheemd
indefinite m./f. sing. ontheemde
n. sing. ontheemd
plural ontheemde
definite ontheemde
partitive ontheemds

Derived terms

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