vocht

Dutch

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /vɔxt/
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  • 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—

Etymology 2

Verb

vocht

  1. singular past indicative of vechten
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