Zilch

See also: zilch

English

Etymology

From German Zilch. Found in America since at least the 1860s.^[1] As a 1930s placeholder surname of uncertain etymology, the eventual etymon of zilch.

Proper noun

Zilch

A surname from German.

References

^ Papers in the case of Dodge vs Brooks, in The Miscellaneous Documents of the House of Representatives, printed during the first session of the thirty-ninth Congress, 1865‒'66, in three volumes, volume 1 (printed in 1866), page 326 has a record of a Henry Zilch living in New York in 1863.

German

Etymology

Attested since at least the 1600s.^[1]

Proper noun

Zilch m or f (proper noun, surname, masculine genitive Zilchs or (with an article) Zilch, feminine genitive Zilch, plural Zilchs)

a surname

Related terms

Zülch, Zülpich, Zürcher

References

^ Theodor Wilhelm Ulmer, Chronik der königlich-baierischen Stadt Hersbruck (1872), page 76 has a record of a Hans Zilch from the 1600s.

[1] Papers in the case of Dodge vs Brooks, in The Miscellaneous Documents of the House of Representatives, printed during the first session of the thirty-ninth Congress, 1865‒'66, in three volumes, volume 1 (printed in 1866), page 326 has a record of a Henry Zilch living in New York in 1863.

[2] Theodor Wilhelm Ulmer, Chronik der königlich-baierischen Stadt Hersbruck (1872), page 76 has a record of a Hans Zilch from the 1600s.

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