Pech – German noun declension

Noun: Pech
Gender: Neuter
Hyphenation: uncountable

Nominative

Genitive

Dative

Accusative

Sample Sentences

Nouns inflected like Pech

Himmelszelt, Miniatureffekt, Kehrdruck, Häuptling, Comic-Heft, Palimpsest, Bienenstich, Kampfstoff, Sandmeer, Häusermeer, Zwischensteg, Offizier, Hautschnitt, Prinzess-Schliff, Vierundzwanzigeck, Stegreif, Springinsfeld, Internationalprozessrecht, Erdöl, Knacklaut, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *pik-der.
3. Proto-Italic *piks
4. Latin pixbor.
5. Proto-West Germanic *pik
6. Old High German pëh
7. Middle High German pëch
8. German Pech
9. Inherited from Middle High German pëch, bëch, from Old High German pëh, bëh, from Proto-West Germanic *pik (“pitch, tar, wood resin”), from Latin pix.
10. 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German along the Rhine (which lacks the pf-shift) and only spread to Upper German slightly later when the shift was no longer active.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.) See: Latin Nouns 'pix'.

Verbs referencing "Pech"

English Nouns pitch, Swedish Nouns beck, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns bek, Dutch Nouns pech, Hungarian Nouns pech, Latvian Nouns piķis.

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