Pech
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Pech
- An indigenous Amerindian language spoken in Honduras.
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From Middle High German pech, bech, from Old High German peh, beh, from Proto-West Germanic *pik (“pitch, tar, wood resin”).
The form is unusual as it shows unshifted p-, but shifted -ch, even though the shift of initial p- to pf- occurred later than that of postvocalic -k to -ch. Theodor Frings therefore considered that the word was at first restricted to West Central German along the Rhine (which lacks the pf-shift) and only spread to Upper German slightly later when the shift was no longer active. (Middle High German pfich occurs only once in a Central German text from the 14th century and is thus probably a hypercorrection.)
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Pech n (strong, genitive Pechs or Peches, plural Peche)
- (usually uncountable) pitch (sticky substance)
- (uncountable) bad luck, misfortune
- 1983, “Ich bin müde”, Rio Reiser (lyrics), Wolgang Michels (music):
- Du denkst nach vorne, ich denk zurück. / Ich zieh das Pech an, du hast nur Glück.
- You think forward, I think back. / I attract bad luck, you have only luck.
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From Old High German peh, from Latin pix. Cognate with German Pech, Dutch pek, English pitch.
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Pech m (uncountable)