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ech

See also: Ech and ECH

Bergish

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Pronoun

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ech

  1. I

East Central German

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Alternative forms

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  • oech (Oberländisch High Prussian)
  • öch (Breslau(i)sch High Prussian)

Pronoun

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ech

  1. (Oberländisch High Prussian) I (first person pronoun)
    • E. Heinel, Erinnerungen. 2. Die Stadt Marienburg, in: 1849, Neue Preußische Provinzial-Blätter. Jahrgang 1849. Juli – December, Königsberg, p. 161ff., here p. 174 ([1]), an example inside of a Standard High German text:
      Eine Probe dieses Dialekts wird seine Anmuth klar machen. Ein Schulknabe erhob bei seinem Lehrer, welcher zugleich Kantor an der evangelischen Kirche war, folgende Anklage; „Herr Kunterche (Kantorchen) de Junges soge emmer, ech hob dem Matzing (Metzing) saine Kraih (Krähe) gestohle!“
    • 1881, August Schemionek, Ausdrücke und Redensarten der Elbingschen Mundart mit einem Anhange von Anekdoten dem Volke nacherzählt. Gesammelt und erklärt, Verlag von Theodor Bertling, Danzig, p. 49 (inside the section Proben der Elbingischen Mundart), an example beginning with Standard High German:
      Arzt: Nun Frau Vogelreuter, Sie haben mich rufen lassen, was fehlt Ihnen denn?
      „Na Herr Docter, oech wees je nich, esse ess oech, trinke trink oech, on schloafe schloaf oech och—man es romort mer so en de Kaldaunen.“—
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Esperanto

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Adverb

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ech

  1. H-system spelling of eĉ

Kalasha

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Noun

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ech

  1. Alternative spelling of eč

Luxembourgish

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Etymology

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From Middle High German ich, from Old High German ih, from Proto-Germanic *ik.

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Pronoun

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ech

  1. first-person singular, nominative: I
    Ech liese gären. ― I like reading.

Declension

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Luxembourgish personal pronouns
nominative accusative dative reflexive
str. unstr. str. unstr. str. unstr.
1st person singular ech — mech — mir mer like dat. and acc.
2nd person singular
(informal) 		du de dech — dir der like dat. and acc.
2nd person singular
(formal) 		Dir Der Iech Iech [əɕ] Iech Iech [əɕ] Iech
3rd person singular m hien en hien en him em sech
f si se si se hir er sech
n hatt et ('t) hatt et ('t) him em sech
1st person plural mir mer eis (ons) — eis (ons) — eis (ons)
2nd person plural dir der iech iech [əɕ] iech iech [əɕ] iech
3rd person plural si se si se hinnen en sech

Middle English

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Etymology

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From Old English ǣlċ, a contraction of ǣġhwylċ (compare ewilch). For the loss of /l/, compare which, swich.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ɛːt͡ʃ/, /ɛt͡ʃ/
  • (Northern) IPA(key): /it͡ʃ/, /ilk/

Determiner

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ech

  1. every (all of a group)
  2. each (all of a group, seen individually)
  3. (Early Middle English) any; at all
  4. (rare) All kinds of.

Descendants

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  • English: each
  • Scots: ilk, elk
  • Yola: earch

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Pronoun

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ech

  1. each one
  2. every one

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Old Irish

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Etymology

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From Primitive Irish *ᚓᚊᚐᚄ (*eqas), from Proto-Celtic *ekʷos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁éḱwos (“horse”). Cognates include Latin equus, Ancient Greek ἵππος (híppos), Sanskrit अश्व (áśva) and Old Armenian էշ (ēš, “donkey”).

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Noun

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ech m (genitive eich, nominative plural eich)

  1. horse

Declension

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Masculine o-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ech echL eichL
Vocative eich echL eochuH
Accusative echN echL eochuH
Genitive eichL ech echN
Dative eochL echaib echaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

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Descendants

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Mutation

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Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
ech unchanged n-ech
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

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Polish

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ɛx/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛx
  • Syllabification: ech

Etymology 1

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Onomatopoeic.

Interjection

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ech

  1. argh! (used to express disappointment, despondence, or impatience)

Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

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ech n

  1. genitive plural of echo

Further reading

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  • ech in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • ech in Polish dictionaries at PWN
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