sech
Translingual Edit
Pronunciation Edit
Symbol Edit
sech
- (mathematics) The symbol of the hyperbolic function hyperbolic secant.
Usage notes Edit
The symbol sech is prescribed by the ISO 80000-2:2019 standard. The symbol sch is also in use, and is especially favoured in French- and Russian-language texts.
See also Edit
English Edit
Determiner Edit
sech
Anagrams Edit
Luxembourgish Edit
Pronunciation Edit
Pronoun Edit
sech
- third-person masculine singular, reflexive: himself
- third-person feminine singular, reflexive: herself
- third-person neuter singular, reflexive: itself
- third-person plural, reflexive: themselves
Declension Edit
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 |
Old Irish Edit
Etymology Edit
From Proto-Celtic *sekʷo- (“besides, without”) (compare Welsh heb (“without”)), from Proto-Indo-European *sekʷ- (“to follow”) or *sek- (“to cut”).[1]
Pronunciation Edit
Preposition Edit
sech (with accusative)
- past, beyond
- different from
- c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 73d7
- Ná eiplet húan bás coitchen húa n‑epil cách, acht foircniter húa sain-bás sech cách.
- Let them not die by the common death by which everyone dies, but let them be ended by a special death different from everyone.
- c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 73d7
Inflection Edit
Inflection of sech
Forms combined with the definite article:
- sechin (“different from the m sg or f sg”)
- secha (“different from the n sg”)
- sechna (“different from the pl”)
Forms combined with a possessive determiner:
- sechmo (“different from my”)
Forms combined with the relative pronoun:
Descendants Edit
Conjunction Edit
sech
Derived terms Edit
References Edit
- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 328
Further reading Edit
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 sech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940, reprinted 2003), D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, §§ 434, 853, pages 273, 530
Romansch Edit
Alternative forms Edit
Etymology Edit
Adjective Edit
sech m (feminine singular secha, masculine plural sechs, feminine plural sechas)
Welsh Edit
Adjective Edit
sech (not mutable)
Verb Edit
sech (not mutable)
- Contraction of basech.