Seiche
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German
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Middle High German seiche f, seich m (“urine; urination”), from Old High German seih m (“urine”), from Old High German seihhen, seichen (“to melt, liquify, strain, urinate”), from Proto-West Germanic *saikijan, from Proto-Germanic *saikijaną (“to make drip”), causative of *sīhwaną (“to filter, strain”). Related to German seihen.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]Seiche f (genitive Seiche, no plural)
- (Upper German, colloquial, vulgar) urine, piss
- (Upper German, colloquial, vulgar, derogatory) bullshit, nonsense, twaddle
Declension
[edit]Declension of Seiche [sg-only, feminine]
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[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]Seiche f (genitive Seiche, plural Seiches)
- (hydrology) seiche
- 1891, Siegmund Günther, Lehrbuch der physikalischen geographie (Naturwissenschaftliches lehrbuch)[1], F. Enke, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 306:
- Es ist nämlich wohl denkbar, dass da eine Interferenzerscheinung vorliegt, welche die Doppelwelle, die täglich jeden Küstenpunkt erreichen soll, in eine einzige stehende Schwingung der einerseits von Asien, andererseits von Amerika begrenzten Wassermasse - also in eine Seiche grössten Masstabes - verwandelt.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 1893, Ernst Behm, Geographisches Jahrbuch[2], volume 16, J. Perthes., →OCLC, page 212:
- Die Luftdruckschwankung von 3-4 mm hätte nach der Theorie eine Seiche von nur 24-32 cm Amplitude bedingen sollen . Die Thatsache, dass die Periode der binodalen Seiche kürzer ist als die Hälfte der einknotigen, findet sich auch am Zürichsee und am Bodensee;
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Declension
[edit]Declension of Seiche [feminine]
Further reading
[edit]- Seiche on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de
- “Seiche” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “Seiche” in Duden online
- “Seiche” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
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