vocht

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Dutch

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /vɔxt/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: vocht
  • Rhymes: -ɔxt

Etymology 1

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From Middle Dutch vucht, vocht. Substantivized form of an identical adjective, from Old Dutch *fuhti (humid, wet, damp; marsh-like), from Proto-West Germanic *fų̄ht, from Proto-Germanic *funhtijaz (humid, wet, damp).

In Middle Dutch the word gradually shifted from being an adjective to being a noun, with the old adjective being replaced by vochtig (humid, wet).

Cognate with Old English fuht (moist, damp) and German feucht (wet, humid, damp).

Noun

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vocht n (uncountable)

  1. dampness, moisture
  2. liquid
Derived terms
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Descendants
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  • Negerhollands: vocht

Adjective

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vocht (comparative vochter, superlative vochtst)

  1. (poetic) moist
    Synonym: vochtig
Declension
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Declension of vocht
uninflected vocht
inflected vochte
comparative vochter
positive comparative superlative
predicative/adverbial vocht vochter het vochtst
het vochtste
indefinite m./f. sing. vochte vochtere vochtste
n. sing. vocht vochter vochtste
plural vochte vochtere vochtste
definite vochte vochtere vochtste
partitive vochts vochters

Etymology 2

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Verb

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vocht

  1. singular past indicative of vechten