iech

See also: Iech

East Central German

Alternative forms

• ihch

Pronoun

iech

1. (Erzgebirgisch, Silesian) I (first person pronoun)

See also

• ich
• iejech (also Erzgebirgisch)

Further reading

• Hendrik Heidler (11 June 2020), Hendrik Heidler's 400 Seiten: Echtes Erzgebirgisch: Wuu de Hasen Hoosn haaßn un de Hosen Huusn do sei mir drhamm: Das Original Wörterbuch: Ratgeber und Fundgrube der erzgebirgischen Mund- und Lebensart: Erzgebirgisch – Deutsch / Deutsch – Erzgebirgisch‎^[1] (in German), 3. geänderte Auflage edition, Norderstedt: BoD – Books on Demand, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 66

Luxembourgish

Etymology

From Middle High German iuch, from Old High German iuwih. The expected Luxembourgish form would be *äich. The form iech probably goes back to Middle High German *öch as in some neighbouring dialects of Central Franconian. This may be due to shortening at the time when -iu- had been diphthongized, thus: [yːç] > [øʏ̯ç] > [øç], and then new diphthongization (sporadically before voiceless fricatives as in briechen, iessen).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [iə̯ɕ], (unstressed also) [əɕ]
• Homophones: Iech (general), ech (unstressed only)

Pronoun

iech

1. second-person plural, accusative: you
2. second-person plural, dative: you, to you
3. second-person plural, reflexive: yourselves

Declension

Luxembourgish personal pronouns

				nominative		accusative		dative		reflexive
				stressed	unstressed	stressed	unstressed	stressed	unstressed
singular	1st person			ech	—	mech	—	mir	mer	like dat. and acc.
	2nd person	informal		du	de	dech	—	dir	der	like dat. and acc.
		formal		Dir	Der	Iech	Iech [əɕ]	Iech	Iech [əɕ]	Iech
	3rd person		m	hien	en	hien	en	him	em	sech
			f	si	se	si	se	hir	er	sech
			n	hatt	et ('t)	hatt	et ('t)	him	em	sech
plural	1st person			mir	mer	eis (ons)	—	eis (ons)	—	eis (ons)
	2nd person			dir	der	iech	iech [əɕ]	iech	iech [əɕ]	iech
	3rd person			si	se	si	se	hinnen	en	sech