hochtsayt

Hunsrik

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Etymology

From German Hochzeit (“wedding”); also analyzable as a compound hoch +‎ tsayt.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hɔx.tsajt/

Noun

hochtsayt

1. wedding
   • 2008, Ursula Wiesemann, Contribuição ao desenvolvimento de uma ortografia da língua Hunsrik falada na América do Sul [Contribution to the development of an orthography of the Hunsrik language spoken in South America], Associação Internacional de Lingüística – SIL Brasil, page 30:

     fayer, hochtsayt, xtayn – fogo, casamento, pedra

     fire, wedding, stone – fire, wedding, stone (note: the words right of the hyphen are in Portuguese)