different between belcher vs welcher

English

Etymology 1

belch +? -er

Noun

belcher (plural belchers)

1. Someone who belches.

Etymology 2

Named after James Belcher (1781–1811), a famous English boxer.

Noun

belcher (plural belchers)

1. (dated) A dark blue neckerchief with white spots, each having a dark-blue spot in the centre.

English

Alternative forms

• welsher (UK)

Etymology

welch +? -er

Pronunciation

Noun

welcher (plural welchers)

1. One who welches.
2. (Britain, offensive slang) A Welshman or person of Welsh descent.

Translations

German

Etymology

From Old High German welih, wilih, from Proto-Germanic *hwil?kaz. Compare English which.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?v?lç?r/, [?v?l.ç?], [?v??-], [?v???-], [?-]

Determiner

welcher

1. (interrogative) which; what

2. (relative, literary) which

Pronoun

welcher

1. (interrogative) which (one)

2. (relative, literary) that; which; who; whom

Usage notes

• Welcher as a relative pronoun is virtually never used in the vernacular. It occurs more often in literary German, but overusing it is a typical trait of a pretentious style (generally corrected by editors). The normal relative pronoun in all registers of German is der and its forms.

Declension

Further reading

• “welcher” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• Friedrich Kluge (1883) , “welcher”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891