Dach

Sentences
Meaning

Frequency

B1
Dialects

Aargau

Aargau

dach

Basel-Landschaft

Basel-Landschaft

dach

Basel-Landschaft

Basel-Landschaft

schäärme

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Pronounced as (IPA)
/dax/
Etymology

In summary

Inherited from Middle High German dach, from Old High German dah, from Proto-West Germanic *þak, from Proto-Germanic *þaką, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)teg-. Cognate with German Low German Dack, Yiddish דאַך (dakh), Dutch dak, Afrikaans dak, English thack, thatch, Danish tag, Norwegian Bokmål tak, Norwegian Nynorsk tak, Swedish tak, Polish stóg, Belarusian стог (stoh), Ukrainian стіг (stih). Akin to Latin toga (“garment”) and Ancient Greek στέγος (stégos, “roof”).

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