echt
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]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”), from Proto-West Germanic *aiw. First use in English appears c. 1916.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ɛkt/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ɛkt
Adjective
[edit]echt (comparative more echt, superlative most echt)
- Proper, real, genuine, true to type.
- 1980, Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers, Penguin, page 8:
- I had heard [the phrase] in Lamb House, Rye, but it was less echt Henry James than Henry James mocking echt Meredith.
- 2002 March 27, Buck Turgidson, “Heebetudinous”, in alt.california[1] (Usenet):
- And yes, that's what it's about. Some punk writing about sleeping with Ginsberg, despite their fifty-year age difference and homogenous sexuality. What's echt heebish? There's your answer. A hack fag poet and the power to plant him on playlists nationwide.
- 2009 January 18, Ross Douthat, “When Buckley Met Reagan”, in The New York Times Book Review[2], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 January 2021:
- An echt Burkean with a snob’s disdain for the contemporary Republican Party, Hart hinted at a road not taken […] .
Translations
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[edit]Czech
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from German echt, from Middle High German echt, from Middle Low German echt.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]echt (indeclinable)
- (colloquial) echt, genuine, pure, unadulterated
- Synonyms: nefalšovaný, opravdový, ryzí
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “echt”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
- “echt”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
- “echt”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2026
Dutch
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Middle Dutch echt, from Old Dutch *ēhaft, from Proto-West Germanic *aiwahaft.
Adjective
[edit]echt (comparative echter, superlative echtst)
Declension
[edit]| Declension of echt | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| uninflected | echt | |||
| inflected | echte | |||
| comparative | echter | |||
| positive | comparative | superlative | ||
| predicative/adverbial | echt | echter | het echtst het echtste | |
| indefinite | m./f. sing. | echte | echtere | echtste |
| n. sing. | echt | echter | echtste | |
| plural | echte | echtere | echtste | |
| definite | echte | echtere | echtste | |
| partitive | echts | echters | — | |
Derived terms
[edit]Adverb
[edit]echt
- (as an intensifier) really
- We moeten echt weer eens een keer naar dat restaurant gaan. ― We should really go to that restaurant again sometime.
- Hij is echt een idioot. ― He really is an idiot.
Descendants
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]From Middle Dutch echte. A nominalization of the adjective listed at Etymology 1 above, which in Middle Dutch could also mean "lawful" (a meaning that has not survived into modern Dutch).
Noun
[edit]echt m (uncountable, no diminutive)
- (formal) the institution or bond of marriage; matrimony
- Synonyms: huwelijk, trouw
- Het koppel is recentelijk in de echt verbonden. ― The couple was recently joined in matrimony.
- Hij heeft de echt gebroken en zijn vrouw bedrogen. ― He broke the bonds of matrimony and betrayed his wife.
- Zij zijn voornemens spoedig in de echt te treden. ― They intend to be joined in matrimony soon.
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “echt1”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute
- van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “echt2”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute
German
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle High German echt, borrowed from Middle Low German echt (“lawful, genuine”). The original form is Middle Low German ēhaft (“lawful”), from ē (“law”) (related to modern Ehe); then ēhacht by the Low German development -ft- → -cht- (compare Nichte); and eventually contracted into echt. Cognate to Old High German ēhaft (“honourable”), Alemannic German ächt and Dutch echt.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]echt (strong nominative masculine singular echter, comparative echter, superlative am echtesten)
- authentic, genuine, true
- Die Jacke ist aus echtem Leder.
- The jacket is made of genuine leather.
- 1994, “Es möchte echt sein”, in In Echt, performed by Die Sterne:
- Hallo Lexikon, erklär mir wie das funktioniert / Es möchte echt sein / Echt
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- (chiefly colloquial) real; factual
- Synonyms: wirklich, tatsächlich
- Der Film ist nah an der echten Geschichte.
- The film is close to the real story.
- (mathematics) proper
- echte Teilmenge ― proper subset
Declension
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → English: echt
Adverb
[edit]echt
- (chiefly colloquial) really; indeed
- Synonym: wirklich
- Das war echt gut. ― That was really good.
Interjection
[edit]echt
- expresses disbelief or shock at new information
- Synonym: wirklich
Further reading
[edit]Kashubian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]echt (not comparable, indeclinable, no derived adverb)
Further reading
[edit]- Stefan Ramułt (1993) [1893], “echt”, in Jerzy Trepczyk, editor, Słownik języka pomorskiego czyli kaszubskiego (in Kashubian), 3 edition
- “echt”, in Internetowi Słowôrz Kaszëbsczégò Jãzëka [Internet Dictionary of the Kashubian Language], Fundacja Kaszuby, 2022
Scots
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]| ← 7 | 8 | 9 → |
|---|---|---|
| Cardinal: echt Ordinal: echt | ||
Inherited from Middle English eighte, aught, eahte, ahte, from Old English eahta, from Proto-West Germanic *ahtō, from Proto-Germanic *ahtōu, from Proto-Indo-European *oḱtṓw.
Alternative forms
[edit]Numeral
[edit]echt
Etymology 2
[edit]Inherited from Middle English eiȝtthe, from Old English eahtoþa, from Proto-Germanic *ahtudô.
Alternative forms
[edit]Adjective
[edit]echt
Etymology 3
[edit]Verb
[edit]echt
- alternative form of aicht
References
[edit]- “aicht, v. tr.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, retrieved 24 May 2024, reproduced from W[illiam] Grant and D[avid] D. Murison, editors, The Scottish National Dictionary, Edinburgh: Scottish National Dictionary Association, 1931–1976, →OCLC.
- “echt, num.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, retrieved 24 May 2024, reproduced from William A[lexander] Craigie, A[dam] J[ack] Aitken [et al.], editors, A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1931–2002, →OCLC.https://dsl.ac.uk/entry/dost/echt
- “echt, num. adj.1.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, retrieved 24 May 2024, reproduced from W[illiam] Grant and D[avid] D. Murison, editors, The Scottish National Dictionary, Edinburgh: Scottish National Dictionary Association, 1931–1976, →OCLC.
- “echt, num. adj.2.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, retrieved 24 May 2024, reproduced from W[illiam] Grant and D[avid] D. Murison, editors, The Scottish National Dictionary, Edinburgh: Scottish National Dictionary Association, 1931–1976, →OCLC.
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