vocht

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vɔxt/

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• Hyphenation: vocht
• Rhymes: -ɔxt

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch vucht, vocht. Substantivized form of an identical adjective, from Old Dutch *fuhti (“humid, wet, damp; marsh-like”), from Proto-West Germanic *fų̄ht, from Proto-Germanic *funhtijaz (“humid, wet, damp”).

In Middle Dutch the word gradually shifted from being an adjective to being a noun, with the old adjective being replaced by vochtig (“humid, wet”).

Cognate with Old English fuht (“moist, damp”) and German feucht (“wet, humid, damp”).

Noun

vocht n (uncountable)

1. dampness, moisture
2. liquid

Derived terms

• lichaamsvocht
• longvocht
• vochtbalans
• vochtig
• vochtindringing
• vochtplek
• voorvocht
• wondvocht

Descendants

• Negerhollands: vocht

Adjective

vocht (comparative vochter, superlative vochtst)

1. (poetic) moist

   Synonym: vochtig

Inflection

Declension of vocht
uninflected	vocht
inflected	vochte
comparative	vochter
		positive	comparative	superlative
predicative/adverbial		vocht	vochter	het vochtst het vochtste
indefinite	m./f. sing.	vochte	vochtere	vochtste
	n. sing.	vocht	vochter	vochtste
	plural	vochte	vochtere	vochtste
definite		vochte	vochtere	vochtste
partitive		vochts	vochters	—

Etymology 2

Verb

vocht

1. singular past indicative of vechten