hoch
Meaning
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- high, tall
- high, great, immense
- grand, important
- (colloquial) hard to comprehend, confusing
Concepts
far up
way up
high place
Synonyms
himmelwärts gerichtet
in der Höhe
in die Höhe
Ehrfurcht gebietend
vornehmst
lang lebe
Frequency
Dialects
Zürich
hoch
Appenzell Ausserrhoden
hoch
Bern
höch
Basel-Landschaft
hooch
Zürich
höch
Data provided by: Deutsch-Schweizerdeutsches Wörterbuch
Pronounced as (IPA)
/hoːx/
Etymology
From Middle High German hōch, from Old High German hōh, from Proto-West Germanic *hauh, from Proto-Germanic *hauhaz, from Proto-Indo-European *kewk-, a suffixed form of *kew-. Compare Dutch hoog, English high, Swedish hög. The irregular declension from the stem hoh- is due to the development of Old High German -h-, which in Middle High German became /x/ in coda position, but /h/ elsewhere (the latter was then gradually lost, starting from the north). Stem alternations of this kind were usually levelled in modern German, as for example in nah (but compare nach), Schuh (Middle High German nāch, schuoch). Most dialects have also levelled hoch, but the standard language has preserved the alternation in this isolated case.
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Sentences
Wie hoch ist der aktuelle gesetzliche Mindestlohn ?
What is the current statutory minimum wage?
