See also: Ech and ECH

Bergish edit

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Pronoun edit

ech

  1. I

East Central German edit

Alternative forms edit

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

Pronoun edit

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 edit

Adverb edit

ech

  1. H-system spelling of

Kalasha edit

Noun edit

ech

  1. Alternative spelling of

Luxembourgish edit

Etymology edit

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

Pronunciation edit

Pronoun edit

ech

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

Declension edit

Middle English edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

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

Pronunciation edit

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

Determiner edit

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 edit

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

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Pronoun edit

ech

  1. each one
  2. every one

Descendants edit

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Old Irish edit

Etymology edit

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).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

ech m (genitive eich, nominative plural eich)

  1. horse

Declension edit

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

Synonyms edit

Descendants edit

Mutation edit

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 edit

Polish edit

Pronunciation edit

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

Noun edit

ech

  1. genitive plural of echo