-lech
Appearance
Luxembourgish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle High German -lich, from Old High German -līh, from Proto-West Germanic *-līk.
Pronunciation
[edit]Suffix
[edit]-lech
Derived terms
[edit]Middle High German
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Often taken to derive from earlier -ech, -ehe (etc), from the Old High German collective suffix -ahi (German -ach, -ich, as in Kräuterich), with the origin of the -l- being unclear (some instances seem to be attested as early as Old High German, e.g. chrūtelīh, whence krûtelech). The suffix is found on singular as well as plural nouns, often with collective meaning but sometimes with diminutive meaning; in various dialects and descendants, it came to be treated as a plural of the diminutive suffix -l.[1] Sometimes connected to Old High German -līh (whence German -lich) instead.
Suffix
[edit]-lech
- (dialectal) suffix used to form singular and plural nouns with collective and diminutive meaning
Alternative forms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- (via one or more dialects) Yiddish: ־לעך (-lekh)
- (several dialects) East Franconian: -lich
- (around Tripitis [Vogtland]) -lich
- (around Landau [Rheinpfalz]) -lich
References
[edit]- ^ Peter O. Müller, Substantiv-Derivation in den Schriften Albrecht Dürers, 1993, §II.1.4.21 (p. 378)
Further reading
[edit]- Fritz Hastenpflug, Das Diminutiv in der deutschen Originalliteratur des 12. und 13. Jahrhunderts (1914)
- Anthony R. Rowley, “Zur Pluralbildung in den Deutschen Dialekten: -ach-Plurale und Verwandte Erscheinungen im Oberdeutschen.” Zeitschrift für Dialektologie und Linguistik, vol. 61, no. 1, 1994, pp. 3–30. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/40504842
- Gertraud Winkler, Die Wortbildung mit "-lich" im Alt-, Mittel- und Frühneuhochdeutschen (1995)
Categories:
- Luxembourgish terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Luxembourgish terms inherited from Middle High German
- Luxembourgish terms derived from Middle High German
- Luxembourgish terms derived from Old High German
- Luxembourgish terms derived from Proto-West Germanic
- Luxembourgish 1-syllable words
- Luxembourgish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Luxembourgish lemmas
- Luxembourgish suffixes
- Limburgish shifted terms
- Middle High German terms inherited from Old High German
- Middle High German terms derived from Old High German
- Middle High German lemmas
- Middle High German suffixes
- Middle High German diminutive suffixes
- Middle High German dialectal terms