Feminine

Wache

Meaning

  1. (feminine) wake, vigil
  2. (feminine) watch, sentry, guard duty
  3. (feminine) watch, guard (group of people perfoming such duty)
  4. (feminine) guard station, guardhouse
  5. (abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, feminine) ellipsis of Polizeiwache: police station

Frequency

B1
Dialects

Basel-Landschaft

Basel-Landschaft

schmiiri

Basel-Landschaft

Basel-Landschaft

wach

Data provided by: Deutsch-Schweizerdeutsches Wörterbuch

Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈvaxə/
Etymology

In summary

From Middle High German wache, from Old High German wacha, from Proto-West Germanic *waku. Cognate with Middle Dutch and Middle Low German wāke, English wake.

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