ech

• ek, ik

ech

1. I

• oech (Oberländisch High Prussian)
• öch (Breslau(i)sch High Prussian)

ech

1. (Oberländisch High Prussian) I (first person pronoun)
   • E. Heinel, Erinnerungen. 2. Die Stadt Marienburg, in: 1849, Neue Preußische Provinzial-Blätter. Jahrgang 1849. Juli – December, Königsberg, p. 161ff., here p. 174 ([1]), an example inside of a Standard High German text:

     Eine Probe dieses Dialekts wird seine Anmuth klar machen. Ein Schulknabe erhob bei seinem Lehrer, welcher zugleich Kantor an der evangelischen Kirche war, folgende Anklage; „Herr Kunterche (Kantorchen) de Junges soge emmer, ech hob dem Matzing (Metzing) saine Kraih (Krähe) gestohle!“

   • 1881, August Schemionek, Ausdrücke und Redensarten der Elbingschen Mundart mit einem Anhange von Anekdoten dem Volke nacherzählt. Gesammelt und erklärt, Verlag von Theodor Bertling, Danzig, p. 49 (inside the section Proben der Elbingischen Mundart), an example beginning with Standard High German:

     Arzt: Nun Frau Vogelreuter, Sie haben mich rufen lassen, was fehlt Ihnen denn?
     „Na Herr Docter, oech wees je nich, esse ess oech, trinke trink oech, on schloafe schloaf oech och—man es romort mer so en de Kaldaunen.“—

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

ech

1. H-system spelling of eĉ

ech

1. Alternative spelling of eč

From Middle High German ich, from Old High German ih, from Proto-Germanic *ik.

• IPA^(key): /eχ/, [əɕ]
• Homophones: iech, Iech (unstressed only)

ech

1. first-person singular, nominative: I

   Ech liese gären. ― I like reading.

• eche, ich, iche, uch, uche, ych
• elke, ilk, ylke (Northern)
• æch, ælc, ælch, elch, euch, ilch, illc, ulche (Early Middle English)

From Old English ǣlċ, a contraction of ǣġhwylċ (compare ewilch). For the loss of /l/, compare which, swich.

• IPA^(key): /ɛːt͡ʃ/, /ɛt͡ʃ/
• (Northern) IPA^(key): /it͡ʃ/, /ilk/

ech

1. every (all of a group)
2. each (all of a group, seen individually)
3. (Early Middle English) any; at all
4. (rare) All kinds of.

• English: each
• Scots: ilk, elk
• Yola: earch

• “ēch, pron.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

ech

1. each one
2. every one

• English: each
• Scots: ilk, elk

• “ēch, pron.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

From Primitive Irish *ᚓᚊᚐᚄ (*eqas), from Proto-Celtic *ekʷos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁éḱwos (“horse”). Cognates include Latin equus, Ancient Greek ἵππος (híppos), Sanskrit अश्व (áśva) and Old Armenian էշ (ēš, “donkey”).

• IPA^(key): /ex/

ech m (genitive eich, nominative plural eich)

1. horse

Masculine o-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ech	echL	eichL
Vocative	eich	echL	eochuH
Accusative	echN	echL	eochuH
Genitive	eichL	ech	echN
Dative	eochL	echaib	echaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

• marc

• Middle Irish: each
  • Irish: each
  • Manx: agh, eagh
  • Scottish Gaelic: each

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
ech (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)	unchanged	n-ech
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “ech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛx/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɛx
• Syllabification: ech

Onomatopoeic.

ech

1. argh! (used to express disappointment, despondence, or impatience)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

ech n

1. genitive plural of echo

• ech in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• ech in Polish dictionaries at PWN