"-lech" meaning in Middle High German

{
  "descendants": [
    {
      "lang": "Yiddish",
      "lang_code": "yi",
      "roman": "-lekh",
      "word": "־לעך"
    },
    {
      "lang": "East Franconian",
      "lang_code": "vmf",
      "word": "-lich"
    },
    {
      "lang": "unknown",
      "lang_code": "gmw-ecg",
      "word": "-lich"
    },
    {
      "lang": "unknown",
      "lang_code": "gmw-rfr",
      "word": "-lich"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "gmh",
        "2": "goh",
        "3": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "Old High German",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "de",
        "2": "",
        "3": "-ach"
      },
      "expansion": "German -ach",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "goh",
        "2": "-līh"
      },
      "expansion": "Old High German -līh",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "de",
        "2": "-lich"
      },
      "expansion": "German -lich",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Often taken to derive from earlier -ech, -ehe (etc), from the Old High German collective suffix -ahi (German -ach, -ich, as in Kräuterich), with the origin of the -l- being unclear (some instances seem to be attested as early as Old High German, e.g. chrūtelīh, whence krûtelech). The suffix is found on singular as well as plural nouns, often with collective meaning but sometimes with diminutive meaning; in various dialects and descendants, it came to be treated as a plural of the diminutive suffix -l. Sometimes connected to Old High German -līh (whence German -lich) instead.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "-lach",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-lich",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-lêhe",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "gmh",
        "2": "suffix",
        "cat2": "diminutive suffixes"
      },
      "expansion": "-lech",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Middle High German",
  "lang_code": "gmh",
  "pos": "suffix",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Middle High German entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 2 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "dingelich, krûtelech"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "suffix used to form singular and plural nouns with collective and diminutive meaning"
      ],
      "id": "en--lech-gmh-suffix-r~iyFMR1",
      "links": [
        [
          "singular",
          "singular#English"
        ],
        [
          "plural",
          "plural#English"
        ],
        [
          "collective",
          "collective#English"
        ],
        [
          "diminutive",
          "diminutive#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(dialectal) suffix used to form singular and plural nouns with collective and diminutive meaning"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "dialectal",
        "morpheme"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "-lech"
}

{
  "descendants": [
    {
      "lang": "Yiddish",
      "lang_code": "yi",
      "roman": "-lekh",
      "word": "־לעך"
    },
    {
      "lang": "East Franconian",
      "lang_code": "vmf",
      "word": "-lich"
    },
    {
      "lang": "unknown",
      "lang_code": "gmw-ecg",
      "word": "-lich"
    },
    {
      "lang": "unknown",
      "lang_code": "gmw-rfr",
      "word": "-lich"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "gmh",
        "2": "goh",
        "3": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "Old High German",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "de",
        "2": "",
        "3": "-ach"
      },
      "expansion": "German -ach",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "goh",
        "2": "-līh"
      },
      "expansion": "Old High German -līh",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "de",
        "2": "-lich"
      },
      "expansion": "German -lich",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Often taken to derive from earlier -ech, -ehe (etc), from the Old High German collective suffix -ahi (German -ach, -ich, as in Kräuterich), with the origin of the -l- being unclear (some instances seem to be attested as early as Old High German, e.g. chrūtelīh, whence krûtelech). The suffix is found on singular as well as plural nouns, often with collective meaning but sometimes with diminutive meaning; in various dialects and descendants, it came to be treated as a plural of the diminutive suffix -l. Sometimes connected to Old High German -līh (whence German -lich) instead.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "-lach",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-lich",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-lêhe",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "gmh",
        "2": "suffix",
        "cat2": "diminutive suffixes"
      },
      "expansion": "-lech",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Middle High German",
  "lang_code": "gmh",
  "pos": "suffix",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Middle High German dialectal terms",
        "Middle High German diminutive suffixes",
        "Middle High German entries with incorrect language header",
        "Middle High German lemmas",
        "Middle High German suffixes",
        "Middle High German terms derived from Old High German",
        "Middle High German terms inherited from Old High German",
        "Pages with 2 entries",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "dingelich, krûtelech"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "suffix used to form singular and plural nouns with collective and diminutive meaning"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "singular",
          "singular#English"
        ],
        [
          "plural",
          "plural#English"
        ],
        [
          "collective",
          "collective#English"
        ],
        [
          "diminutive",
          "diminutive#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(dialectal) suffix used to form singular and plural nouns with collective and diminutive meaning"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "dialectal",
        "morpheme"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "-lech"
}