vocht

Dutch

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

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

vocht n (uncountable)

  1. dampness, moisture
  2. liquid
Derived terms

Adjective

vocht (comparative vochter, superlative vochtst)

  1. (poetic) moist
    Synonym: vochtig
Inflection
Inflection of vocht
uninflected vocht
inflected vochte
comparative vochter
positive comparative superlative
predicative/adverbial vochtvochterhet vochtst
het vochtste
indefinite m./f. sing. vochtevochterevochtste
n. sing. vochtvochtervochtste
plural vochtevochterevochtste
definite vochtevochterevochtste
partitive vochtsvochters

Verb

vocht

  1. singular past indicative of vechten
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