See also: Iech

East Central German

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iech

  1. (Erzgebirgisch, Silesian) I (first person pronoun)

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Further reading

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  • 2020 June 11, Hendrik Heidler, Hendrik Heidler's 400 Seiten: Echtes Erzgebirgisch: Wuu de Hasen Hoosn haaßn un de Hosen Huusn do sei mir drhamm: Das Original Wörterbuch: Ratgeber und Fundgrube der erzgebirgischen Mund- und Lebensart: Erzgebirgisch – Deutsch / Deutsch – Erzgebirgisch[1], 3. geänderte Auflage edition, Norderstedt: BoD – Books on Demand, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 66:

Luxembourgish

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Etymology

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From Middle High German iuch, from Old High German iuwih. The expected Luxembourgish form would be *äich. The form iech probably goes back to Middle High German *öch as in some neighbouring dialects of Central Franconian. This may be due to shortening at the time when -iu- had been diphthongized, thus: [yːç] > [øʏ̯ç] > [øç], and then new diphthongization (sporadically before voiceless fricatives as in briechen, iessen).

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iech

  1. second-person plural, accusative: you
  2. second-person plural, dative: you, to you
  3. second-person plural, reflexive: yourselves

Declension

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Luxembourgish personal pronouns
nominative accusative dative reflexive
stressed unstressed stressed unstressed stressed unstressed
singular 1st person ech mech mir mer like dat. and acc.
2nd person informal du de dech dir der like dat. and acc.
formal Dir Der Iech Iech [əɕ] Iech Iech [əɕ] Iech
3rd person 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
plural 1st person mir mer eis (ons) eis (ons) eis (ons)
2nd person dir der iech iech [əɕ] iech iech [əɕ] iech
3rd person si se si se hinnen en sech