echt

Meaning

Proper, real, genuine, true to type.

Pronounced as (IPA)
/ɛkt/
Etymology

Borrowed from German echt (“real”). The German term originates from Middle Low German echt (“lawful, genuine”), contraction of ehacht, variant form of ehaft (“lawful, pertaining to the law”) from ê(e) (“law, marriage”). First use in English appears c. 1916.

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