different between mich vs mitch

English

Verb

mich (third-person singular simple present miches, present participle miching, simple past and past participle miched)

1. Alternative form of mitch

Anagrams

• chim

Cimbrian

Etymology

From Middle High German mich (“me”). Cognate with German mich.

Pronoun

mich

1. (Sette Comuni) accusative of ich: me

See also

References

• “mich” in Martalar, Umberto Martello; Bellotto, Alfonso (1974) Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo

German

Etymology

From Middle High German mich, from Old High German mih, from Proto-Germanic *mek, from Proto-Indo-European *me (“me”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?ç/

Pronoun

mich

1. accusative of ich: me

Further reading

• “mich” in Duden online

Hunsrik

Etymology

From Middle High German mich, from Old High German mih, from Proto-Germanic *mek, from Proto-Indo-European *me (“me”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?ç/

Pronoun

mich

1. stressed and unstressed accusative of ich: me.

Inflection

Further reading

• Online Hunsrik Dictionary

Limburgish

Pronunciation

• (most dialects) IPA^(key): /m?x/
• (Maastricht) IPA^(key): /mix/
• (Cleverlandic dialects) IPA^(key): /m?k/

Pronoun

mich

1. accusative of ich: me

Middle High German

Etymology

From Old High German mih, from Proto-Germanic *mek, from Proto-Indo-European *me (“me”).

Pronoun

mich

1. me: accusative singular of ich

Descendants

• Alemannic German: mich, mi
• Central Franconian: mich
• Cimbrian: mich
• East Central German: mihch, mich, miech
• German: mich
• Hunsrik: mich
• Luxembourgish: mech
• Pennsylvania German: mich
• Yiddish: ???? (mikh)

Pennsylvania German

Etymology

Compare German mich.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?ç/

Pronoun

mich

1. me

Declension

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?ix/

Noun

mich f

1. genitive plural of micha

West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian [Term?], from Proto-Germanic *mugj?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?x/

Noun

mich c (plural miggen, diminutive michje)

1. fly
2. mosquito
3. shorty; short person

Derived terms

• miggesiftsje

Further reading

• “mich”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

English

Alternative forms

• mich, mych, myche, meech, meach
• miche (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English mychen, müchen (“to rob, steal, pilfer”), from Old English *my??an (“to steal”), from Proto-Germanic *mukjan? (“to waylay, ambush, hide, rob”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)m?g- (“swindler, thief”). Cognate with Scots mich, myche (“to steal”), Saterland Frisian mogeln (“to act secretively and deceitfully”), Dutch mokkelen (“to flatter”), Alemannic German mauchen (“to nibble secretively”), German mogeln (“to cheat”), German meucheln (“to assassinate”), Norwegian i mugg (“in secret, secretly”), Latin muger (“cheater”). Related to mooch.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?t?/
• Rhymes: -?t?

Verb

mitch (third-person singular simple present mitches, present participle mitching, simple past and past participle mitched)

1. (transitive, dialectal) To pilfer; filch; steal.
2. (intransitive, dialectal) To shrink or retire from view; lurk out of sight; skulk.
3. (Ireland, Wales) To be absent from school without a valid excuse; to play truant.
   • 1983, Bernard MacLaverty, Cal, Chapter 4. (p.115 in the 1998 Vintage paperback edition):

     "Did you ever mitch school?" he asked.
     "No. But I think this is what it would feel like."

   John said he was going to mitch the last lesson today.

4. (intransitive, dialectal) To grumble secretly.
5. (intransitive, dialectal) To pretend poverty.

Synonyms

(play truant):

• bunk off
• skive

Derived terms

• mitcher
• mitchery
• mitching

Translations