different between echt vs eche

English

Etymology

Borrowed from German echt (“real”). The German term originates from Middle Low German echt (“lawful, genuine”), contraction of ehacht, variant form of ehaft (“lawful, pertaining to the law”) from ê(e) (“law, marriage”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kt/

Adjective

echt (comparative more echt, superlative most echt)

1. proper, real, genuine, true to type
   • 1980, Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers, Penguin, p.8

     I had heard [the phrase] in Lamb House, Rye, but it was less echt Henry James than Henry James mocking echt Meredith.

Translations

Anagrams

• Chet, Tech., chet, etch, hect-, tech

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?xt/
• Hyphenation: echt
• Rhymes: -?xt

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch echt, from Old Dutch *?haft, from Proto-West Germanic *aiwahaft.

Adjective

echt (comparative echter, superlative echtst)

1. authentic, true, genuine, real

   Synonyms: waar, heus

   Antonyms: onecht, nep, vals

Inflection

Derived terms

• echtheid
• onecht
• in het echt

Descendants

• Afrikaans: eg

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

echt m (uncountable)

1. The institution marriage, matrimony.

   Synonym: huwelijk

Derived terms

• echtelijk
• echtgelofte
• echtgenoot
• echtscheiding

German

Alternative forms

• ächt (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle High German echt, borrowed from Middle Low German echt (“lawful, genuine”). The original form is Middle Low German ?haft (“lawful”), from ? (“law”) (related to modern Ehe); then ?hacht by the Low German development -ft- ? -cht- (compare Nichte); and eventually contracted into echt. Cognate to Old High German ?haft (“honourable”) and Dutch echt.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?çt/
• Rhymes: -?çt

Adjective

echt (comparative echter, superlative am echtesten)

1. authentic, genuine, true

2. (chiefly colloquial) real; factual

   Synonyms: wirklich, tatsächlich

3. (mathematics) proper

Declension

Synonyms

• (real): wirklich

Derived terms

• echtgolden
• Echtheit
• echt jetzt
• echtsilbern
• in echt
• waschecht

Descendants

• ? English: echt

Adverb

echt

1. (chiefly colloquial) really; indeed

Synonyms

• wirklich

Further reading

• “echt” in Duden online

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /i?t?/

Etymology

From Middle English eche, ece, from Old English ??e, ??e (“perpetual, eternal, everlasting”), from Proto-Germanic *aiwukiz (“eternal”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?yewg?ih?- and *h?yug?ih?- respectively, to assume a reconstruction of Pre-Germanic *h?oyug?ih?- with an original meaning of "ever-living". Cognate with Dutch eeuwig (“eternal”), German ewig (“eternal”), Swedish evig (“perpetual, eternal”), Latin i?gis (“continual”).

Adjective

eche (comparative more eche, superlative most eche)

1. (dialectal, archaic) Eternal; everlasting.

Related terms

Anagrams

• EHEC

Asturian

Verb

eche

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of echar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of echar

Galician

Etymology

From Suevic * agj? (compare English edge, Dutch egge, German Ecke, Swedish egg, Norwegian egg)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?et??e?/

Noun

eche m (plural eches)

1. hide-and-seek (children’s game)

   Synonym: agachadas

2. rocky ridge

   Synonyms: farallón, facho, barroco, berreco, louro, xorfe

References

• “eche” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.

Jakaltek

Etymology

From Proto-Mayan *ekaj.

Noun

eche

1. axe

References

• Church, Clarence; Church, Katherine (1955) Vocabulario castellano-jacalteco, jacalteco-castellano?^[1] (in Spanish), Guatemala C. A.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, pages 28; 18

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English ?l?.

Adjective

eche

1. each

Alternative forms

• ælc, ælch, elch, ilk

Descendants

• English: each
• Scots: ilk, elk

Etymology 2

From Old English e?e.

Noun

eche

1. Alternative form of ache (“aching”)

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?et??e/, [?e.t??e]

Verb

eche

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of echar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of echar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of echar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of echar.