גיך
Appearance
Yiddish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- געך (gekh) (dialectal)
Etymology
[edit]From Middle High German gæhe, from Old High German gāhi, from Proto-Germanic *ganhuz. Compare German jäh (“abrupt”), Jähe (“abruptness”). Also cognate with Bavarian gach (“sudden, abrupt”), Dutch gauw (“soon”) and probably English gay, jay.
Adjective
[edit]גיך • (gikh) (comparative גיכער (gikher), superlative גיכסט (gikhst))
Declension
[edit]Declension of גיך
Further reading
[edit]- Map of dialectal variants for "quickly" from Litvish: An Atlas of Northeastern Yiddish by Dovid Katz
Noun
[edit]גיך • (gikh) f
Derived terms
[edit]- אין גיכן (in gikhn)
Categories:
- Yiddish terms inherited from Middle High German
- Yiddish terms derived from Middle High German
- Yiddish terms inherited from Old High German
- Yiddish terms derived from Old High German
- Yiddish terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
- Yiddish terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Yiddish lemmas
- Yiddish adjectives
- Yiddish nouns
- Yiddish feminine nouns