Pech

Oznaczający (English)

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

Synonyms

Unglück

Missgeschick

Mißgeschick

Unglücksfall

Unfall

Katastrophe

Klebstoff

Harz

Malheur

Unbill

Ungemach

Verhängnis

Panne

Teer

Misere

pökeln

Rückschlag

Schicksal

Tatze

Tracht Prügel

Ulk

🤣

Unannehmlichkeit

Unheil

Fuß

🦶

glücklicher Zufall

schweres Schicksal

Unglücklich

Unstern

Wendung des Schicksals

unglücklicher Mensch

Ahnung

Arschkarte

Akzidens

Bein

Bitumen

Ehebrecher

einsalzen

Elend

Fisch

🐟

Glück

Havarie

Leim

Los

Mensch

Mißerfolg

Pfote

Dialekty

Appenzell Ausserrhoden

pech

Bazylea-Okręg

bäch

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Wymawiane jako (IPA)

/pɛç/

Etymologia (English)

Inherited from średnio-wysoko-niemiecki: pech

Inherited from staro-wysoko-niemiecki: peh

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German along the Rhine (which lacks the pf-shift) and only spread to Upper German slightly later when the shift was no longer active.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