different between sich vs sech

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Ukrainian ??? (Si?), from Ukrainian ????? (sikty, “to chop”), alluding to the clearing of a forest for an encampment, or the building of a fort with trees that have been cut down.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /sit??/

Noun

sich (plural sichs or siches)

1. (historical) An administrative and military centre for the Zaporozhian and Danube Cossacks.

Translations

References

Further reading

• sich on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

Adjective

sich (not comparable)

1. Pronunciation spelling of such.

Pronoun

sich

1. Pronunciation spelling of such.

Anagrams

• CHIS, Chis, HCIs, ICHs, chis

German

Etymology

From Middle High German sich, from Old High German sih, from Proto-Germanic *sek. Compare Yiddish ???? (zikh), Dutch zich.

This pronoun was originally restricted to the accusative case, while simple personal pronouns were used in the dative. Dative use of sich in Middle High German was restricted to northern dialects of Central German. In Early Modern German, a rare dative sir also occurred, formed by analogy with mir, dir. An obstacle to the generalisation of this form was the use of sich in the plural, where there operated the conflicting analogy with the merged accusative/dative forms uns, euch.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /z?ç/
• Rhymes: -?ç

Pronoun

sich (both accusative and dative)

1. (reflexive) Reflexive pronoun of the third person singular: herself, himself, itself, oneself (direct or indirect object).
2. (reflexive) Reflexive pronoun of the third person plural: themselves (direct or indirect object).

Related terms

• mich, mir, dich, dir, uns, euch
• seiner, ihrer

Further reading

• “sich” in Duden online

Scots

Adjective

sich (comparative mair sich, superlative maist sich)

1. Alternative form of sic

Pronoun

sich

1. Alternative form of sic

Translingual

Symbol

sech

1. (mathematics) The symbol of the hyperbolic function hyperbolic secant.

Usage notes

The symbol sech is prescribed by the ISO 80000-2:2019 standard. The symbol sch is also in use, and is especially favoured in French- and Russian-language texts.

See also

• csch
• coth
• arcsech

English

Determiner

sech

1. (Southern US) Pronunciation spelling of such.

Anagrams

• Ches., Esch, hESC

Luxembourgish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ze?/, [z??]

Pronoun

sech

1. third-person masculine singular, reflexive: himself
2. third-person feminine singular, reflexive: herself
3. third-person neuter singular, reflexive: itself
4. third-person plural, reflexive: themselves

Declension

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *sek?o- (“besides, without”), from Proto-Indo-European *sek?- (“to follow”) or *sek- (“to cut”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?ex/

Preposition

sech (with accusative)

1. past, beyond
2. different from
   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 73^d7

Inflection

Forms combined with the definite article:

• sechin (“different from the m sg or f sg”)
• secha (“different from the n sg”)
• sechna (“different from the pl”)

Forms combined with a possessive determiner:

• sechmo (“different from my”)

Forms combined with the relative pronoun:

• secha

Descendants

• Irish: seach
• Manx: shagh
• Scottish Gaelic: seach

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “1 sech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940, reprinted 2003) D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, ?ISBN, §§ 434, 853, pages 273, 530

References

Romansch

Alternative forms

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Surmiran) sitg, setg
• (Sursilvan) schetg, sec
• (Sutsilvan) sétg

Etymology

From Latin siccus.

Adjective

sech m (feminine singular secha, masculine plural sechs, feminine plural sechas)

1. (Puter, Vallader) dry

Welsh

Adjective

sech (not mutable)

1. feminine singular of sych

Verb

sech (not mutable)

1. Contraction of basech.