Noun: pech
Gender: Masculine
Hyphenation:
uncountable
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like pech
groepsimmuniteit,
wintergroen,
nixtamalisatie,
homocultuur,
onbesprokenheid,
sesaté,
sepsis,
sterfelijkheid,
seleen,
stoomkracht,
beeldhouwkunst,
clitoridectomie,
kontlikkerij,
concurrentie,
sardis,
satijn,
militaria,
santen,
staatsterreur,
classicisme, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From German Pech (“bad luck; pitch, tar”), from Old High German peh, from Latin pīx. Doublet of inherited pek (“pitch”). Also cognate with English pitch.
2. The sense “breakdown” is a Dutch innovation. It is probably modelled on the word ongeluk, which means both “bad luck, misfortune” and “accident”. Since pech typically denotes a lesser kind of bad luck, it came to be used for a lesser kind of traffic accident too. German uses Panne instead; compare Dutch panne. See: German Nouns '
Pech', Latin Nouns '
pīx', English Nouns '
pitch', Dutch Nouns '
panne'.
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