different between esh vs nesh
esh
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -??
Noun
esh (plural eshes)
- The IPA symbol ?.
Anagrams
- (s)he, EH&S, EHS, HSE, SHE, She, ehs, he's, hes, hse, s/he, she, she-
Albanian
Alternative forms
- es, eshk
Etymology
From South Slavic; cf. Macedonian ?? (ež), Serbo-Croatian ???? (j?ž).Alternatively, variant eshk would be more conservative, from Proto-Albanian *etska, with devoicing from *edz-k-a, from Proto-Indo-European *h?e??is; cognate with Ancient Greek ?????? (ekhînos), Macedonian ?? (ež), German Igel, Lithuanian ež?s.
Noun
esh m (indefinite plural eshë, definite singular eshi, definite plural eshët)
- (regional) hedgehog
- (regional, figuratively) look-alike, doppelgänger
Declension
Synonyms
- iriq, uriq
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nesh
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /n??/
- Rhymes: -??
Etymology 1
From Middle English nesh, nesch, nesche, from Old English hnes?e, hnys?e, hnæs?e (“soft, tender, mild; weak, delicate; slack, negligent; effeminate, wanton”), from Proto-West Germanic *hnaskw?, from Proto-Germanic *hnaskuz (“soft, tender”), from Proto-Indo-European *kn?s-, *kenes- (“to scratch, scrape, rub”). Cognate with Scots nesch, nesh (“soft, tender, yielding easily to pressure, sensitive”), Dutch nesch, nes (“wet, moist”), Gothic ???????????????????????????? (hnasqus, “soft, tender, delicate”). Compare also nask, nasky, nasty.
Alternative forms
- nish (Newfoundland English)
Adjective
nesh (comparative nesher, superlative neshest)
- (now Britain dialectal) Soft; tender; sensitive; yielding.
- (now Britain dialectal) Delicate; weak; poor-spirited; susceptible to cold weather, harsh conditions etc.
- 1887, Thomas Hardy, The Woodlanders, Chapter 4:
- And if he keeps the daughter so long at boarding-school, he'll make her as nesh as her mother was.
- 1913, D. H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, Chapter 8:
- No, tha'd drop down stiff, as dead as a door-knob, wi' thy nesh sides.
- 1887, Thomas Hardy, The Woodlanders, Chapter 4:
- (now Britain dialectal) Soft; friable; crumbly.
Usage notes
- This is a fairly widespread dialect term throughout Northern England, North Wales and the Midlands.
Derived terms
- neshen
- neshness
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English neschen, from Old English hnes?an, hnes?ian (“to make soft, soften; become soft, give way, waver”), from Proto-West Germanic *hnaskw?n (“to make soft”), from Proto-Indo-European *kn?s-, *kenes- (“to scratch, scrape, rub”). Cognate with Old High German nasc?n ("to nibble at, parasitise, squander"; > German naschen (“to nibble, pinch”)). Doublet of nosh.
Verb
nesh (third-person singular simple present neshes, present participle neshing, simple past and past participle neshed)
- (transitive) To make soft, tender, or weak.
- (intransitive, dialectal, Northern England) To act timidly.
Anagrams
- NHEs, Shen, hens
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