Neuter

Pech

Betekenis (Engels)

  1. (neuter, strong, uncountable, usually) pitch (sticky substance)
  2. (neuter, strong, uncountable) bad luck, misfortune

Teenoorgestelde van
Glück
Frekwensie

B2
Dialekte

Kanton Appenzell Ausserrhoden

Kanton Appenzell Ausserrhoden

pech

Kanton Basel-Land

Kanton Basel-Land

bäch

Data verskaf deur: Deutsch-Schweizerdeutsches Wörterbuch

Uitgespreek as (IPA)
/pɛç/
Etimologie (Engels)

In summary

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German along the Rhine (which lacks the pf-shift) and only spread to Upper German slightly later when the shift was no longer active.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.)

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