ich

From Middle English ich, from Old English iċ, iċċ (“I”, pronoun), from Proto-Germanic *ik, *ek (“I”, pronoun), from Proto-Indo-European *éǵh₂ (“I”). See also ch-, I.

• Iche
• che
• 'ch-
• ch-

• IPA^(key): /itʃ/, /ɪtʃ/
• Homophones: each, itch

ich

1. (personal, obsolete) I.
   • 1529, John Skelton, Elynour Rummyng:

     "Behold," she sayd, "and se How bright I am of ble! Ich am not cast away, That can my husband say, [...]"

   • 1561, John Awdelay, The fraternitye of vacabondes:

     My maysters, ich am an old man, and halfe blinde, […]

   • 1568, Thomas Howell, Arbor of Amitie:

     With cap and knee, ich will serve thee, what should ich more declare.

   • 1604, William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure:

     Kissyng and lying ich see is all one:
     And chave no mony, chul tell true therfore.

   • 1645, Thomas Davies, The Somersetshire Man's Complaint:

     Dost thinke 'chill labor to be poore, No no, ich haue a-doe..Ich will a plundering too.

   • 1706, Edward Phillips, The New World of English Words:

     Ich, a Word us'd for I in the Western Parts of England.

Ich was the form of I found in the dialects of the West Country, West Midlands, and Kent. It began to disappear from written English with the onset of the Chancery Standard in the 15th century, yet continued to see limited use through the middle of the 19th century.

The Northern dialectal form, ik (which derives from the same Old English root), likewise disappeared from writing with the onset of the Chancery Standard in the 15th century.

• nich

• chinny reckon

Clipping of ichthyophthiriasis.

• ick

• IPA^(key): /ɪk/

ich (uncountable)

1. (ichthyology) Ichthyophthiriasis, a parasitic infection of freshwater fish caused by the ciliate Ichthyophthirius.
   • 1996, Edward J. Noga, Fish Disease: Diagnosis and Treatment, Iowa State University Press (2000), →ISBN, page 95:

     Ich is one of the most common diseases of freshwater fish.

• marine ich

• CHI, CIH, Ch'i, Chi, Chi., HCI, chi, hic

• i
• ig (Bern)

From Middle High German ich, from Old High German ih, from Proto-Germanic *ek, *ik. Cognate with German ich, Dutch ik, English I, Icelandic ég.

• (Zurich) IPA^(key): /ix/, /i/ (unstressed), IPA^(key): [ɪːx] (stressed)

ich

1. I

• eich (Moselle Franconian, stressed)
• ech (some dialects of Ripuarian; Moselle Franconian, unstressed, enclitic)

From Middle High German ich, from Old High German ih, from Proto-Germanic *ek, *ik, from Proto-Indo-European *éǵh₂. The expected form is ech; the variant ich is from a form *īh with expressive lengthening (compare the corresponding diphthong in Moselle Franconian).

• IPA^(key): /iɕ/, [iɕ]
  • IPA^(key): [eɕ] → [əɕ] → [ɕ] (unstressed; enclitic before a consonant)
  • IPA^(key): [ij] (enclitic before a vowel)
• The enclitic pronunciation is used after verbs and conjunctions (unless the pronoun is stressed).

ich

1. (some dialects of Ripuarian, including Kölsch) I; nominative of the first-person singular personal pronoun

   Dat senn ich op däm Fotto.

   That’s I (or: me) in this photo.

From Middle High German ich, from Old High German ih, from Proto-Germanic *ek, *ik. Cognate with German ich, Dutch ik, English I, Icelandic ég.

ich

1. (Sette Comuni) I

• “ich” in Martalar, Umberto Martello; Bellotto, Alfonso (1974) Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo

From Proto-Germanic *ik, from Proto-Indo-European *éǵh₂.

ich

1. I
   • 1562, Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq:

     Ich malthata. Ego dico.

From Middle High German ich, from Old High German ih, from Proto-Germanic *ek, *ik, from Proto-Indo-European *éǵh₂.

• IPA^(key): /ɪç/

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ich

1. I (first person singular nominative (subject) pronoun)

¹Often capitalized, especially in letters

In contemporary German, the genitive forms of personal pronouns are restricted to formal style and are infrequent even here. They may be used

• for the genitive object still found in a handful of verbs: Er erbarmte sich meiner. – "He had mercy on me". (Colloquially one would either use the dative case, or a prepositional object, or replace the verb with another.)
• after the preposition statt ("instead of, in place of"): Er kam statt meiner in die Mannschaft. – "He joined the team in my place." This sounds antiquated, and an meiner Statt or an meiner Stelle is preferable (in which case meiner is not a genitive, but a form of the possessive determiner mein).

• Ich n
• lyrisches Ich n

• ich in Duden online

From Middle High German ich, from Old High German ih, from Proto-Germanic *ek, *ik, from Proto-Indo-European *éǵh₂.

• IPA^(key): /iç/

ich

1. I

   Ich sin en Fraa.

   I am a woman.

• Online Hunsrik Dictionary

• iech, ik

From Old High German ih, from Proto-Germanic *ek, *ik.

• (most dialects) IPA^(key): [ɪx]
• (Maastricht) IPA^(key): [ix]

ich (personal)

1. I

• IPA^(key): /ɪ̀c/

ich

1. stomach

From Old English iċ (“I”, pronoun), from Proto-Germanic *ek (“I”, pronoun), from Proto-Indo-European *egom (“I”), *éǵh₂.

• IPA^(key): /itʃ/

ich

1. Alternative form of I

• Ich is the Southern and sometimes Midland form of I in Middle English, which corresponds to ik of the Northern dialect.

From Old High German ih, from Proto-Germanic *ek, *ik.

ich

1. (personal) I

• Alemannic German: ich, ig, i
  • Sensler: [iː][1]
  • Swabian: i
    • Sathmar Swabian: i
• Bavarian: i
  • Cimbrian: i, ich
• Central Franconian: ich, eich, ech
  • Hunsrückisch: äijsch
    • Hunsrik: ich [ɪç][2]
  • Moselle Franconian:
    • Saarland:
      • Britten: [æɪ̯ʃ], [ɪʃ][3]
  • Ripuarian:
    • Kölsch: ich[4]
• East Central German:
  • Erzgebirgisch: iech
  • Silesian German: iech
  • Upper Saxon: isch, ische
• East Franconian: i, iech
• German: ich
• Luxembourgish: ech
• Rhine Franconian:
  • Hessian: aisch
  • Pennsylvania German: ich [ɪç][5]
• Vilamovian: ych
• Yiddish: איך‎ (ikh)

From Old High German ih. Compare German ich, Dutch ik, English I, Old Norse ek.

ich

1. I

• IPA^(key): /ix/

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ich

1. possessive pronoun for oni or one, namely their or theirs; indeclinable.

ich

1. genitive of oni; them
2. genitive of one; them
3. personal masculine accusative of oni; them

• nich
• Appendix:Polish pronouns

• IPA^(key): /ˈix/

ich

(The genitive plural and accusative plural of on (he), ona (she), and one (it).)

1. (possessive) their, theirs
2. them

• ich in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk

From Middle English ich, from Old English iċ (“I”, pronoun), from Proto-Germanic *ek (“I”, pronoun), from Proto-Indo-European *éǵh₂ (“I”). Compare obsolete English ich.

ich

1. I (first person singular pronoun)

• 'ch-

ich (plural ichoʼob)

1. (anatomy) eye
2. face
3. fruit