"Pech" meaning in German

See Pech in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /pɛç/ Audio: De-Pech.ogg
Rhymes: -ɛç Etymology: 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German along the Rhine (which lacks the pf-shift) and only spread to Upper German slightly later when the shift was no longer active.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.) Etymology templates: {{dercat|de|la}}, {{inh|de|gmh|pech}} Middle High German pech, {{m|gmh|bech}} bech, {{inh|de|goh|peh}} Old High German peh, {{m|goh|beh}} beh, {{inh|de|gmw-pro|*pik|t=pitch, tar, wood resin}} Proto-West Germanic *pik (“pitch, tar, wood resin”), {{m+|gmh||pfich}} Middle High German pfich Head templates: {{de-noun|n,s:es}} Pech n (strong, genitive Pechs or Peches, plural Peche) Inflection templates: {{de-ndecl|n,s:es}} Forms: Pechs [genitive], Peches [genitive], Peche [plural], strong [table-tags], Pech [nominative, singular], Peche [definite, nominative, plural], Pechs [genitive, singular], Peches [genitive, singular], Peche [definite, genitive, plural], Pech [dative, singular], Peche [dative, singular], Pechen [dative, definite, plural], Pech [accusative, singular], Peche [accusative, definite, plural]
  1. (usually uncountable) pitch (sticky substance) Tags: neuter, strong, uncountable, usually
    Sense id: en-Pech-de-noun-ONHPO6HN
  2. (uncountable) bad luck, misfortune Tags: neuter, strong, uncountable Synonyms: Unglück Derived forms: Pechblende, Pechnelke, Pechsträhne, Pechvogel Related terms: pekig
    Sense id: en-Pech-de-noun-Gbmls51~ Categories (other): German terms with collocations, German entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of German entries with incorrect language header: 7 93

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for Pech meaning in German (5.4kB)

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