vocht – Dutch noun declension

Noun: vocht
Gender: Neuter Hyphenation:

uncountable

Sample Sentences

Nouns inflected like vocht

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 Middle Dutch vucht, vocht. Substantivized form of an identical adjective, from Old Dutch *fuhti (“humid, wet, damp; marsh-like”), from Proto-West Germanic *fų̄ht, from Proto-Germanic *funhtijaz (“humid, wet, damp”).
2. In Middle Dutch the word gradually shifted from being an adjective to being a noun, with the old adjective being replaced by vochtig (“humid, wet”).
3. Cognate with Old English fuht (“moist, damp”) and German feucht (“wet, humid, damp”).

Verbs referencing "vocht"

Latin Nouns fangus.

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