From en.wiktionary.org:
[Echt]
** English
[2011]
*** Etymology
Borrowed from [en]. The German term originates from [en], contraction of
[gml], variant form of [gml] from [gml]. First use in English appears c.
1916.
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Adjective
[en-adj]
1. Proper , real , genuine , true to type .
2. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1980 | author=w:Anthony Burgess | title=Earthly Powers | page=8 | publisher=Penguin
|passage=I had heard [the phrase] in Lamb House, Rye, but it was less ECHT
Henry James than Henry James mocking ECHT Meredith.}}
1. * {{ quote-newsgroup | en | date=27 March 2002 | author=
Buck
Turgidson|title=Heebetudinous|url=https://groups.google.com/g/alt.california/c/leQV3OY1vu4/m/5oeSD3hGuVkJ|newsgroup=alt.california|passage=And
yes, that's what it's about. Some punk writing about sleeping with Ginsberg,
despite their fifty-year age difference and homogenous sexuality. What's ECHT
heebish? There's your answer. A hack fag poet and the power to plant him on
playlists nationwide.}}
1. * [en]
**** Translations
[genuine]
- Czech: [cs]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Finnish: [fi] ; [fi] [dialectal]
- German: [de]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
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*** Anagrams
- [en]
** Czech
*** Etymology
[cs], from [cs], from [cs].
*** Pronunciation
- [cs-IPA]
- [cs]
*** Adjective
[indecl=1]
1. [cs] [en] , genuine , pure , unadulterated
**** Derived terms
[cs]
**** Related terms
[cs]
*** Further reading
- [R:cs:PSJC]
- [R:cs:SSJC]
- [R:cs:IJP]
** Dutch
*** Pronunciation
- [nl]
- [nl]
- [nl]
- [nl]
- [nl]
*** Etymology 1
From [nl], from [nl], from [nl].
**** Adjective
[nl-adj]
1. authentic , true , genuine , real
***** Declension
[nl-decl-adj]
**** Adverb
[nl-adv]
1. [nl] really
***** Derived terms
{{col|nl |echt lepelblad |echte salie |echtheid |onecht |rasecht |in het echt
}}
***** Descendants
- [af]
- [pey]
- [pap]
*** Etymology 2
[nl]
**** Noun
[m]
1. the institution marriage , matrimony
***** Derived terms
- [nl]
- [nl]
- [nl]
- [nl]
***** Descendants
- [dcr]
[nl]
** German
*** Alternative forms
- [de]
*** Etymology
From [de], borrowed from [de]. The original form is Middle Low German [gml],
from [gml] (related to modern [de]); then [gml] by the Low German development
_-ft-_ → _-cht-_ (compare [de]); and eventually contracted into _echt_.
Cognate to [goh] and [nl].
*** Pronunciation
- [de]
- [de]
- [de]
- [de]
*** Adjective
[comp]
1. authentic , genuine , true
2. * [de]
3. [de] real ; factual
4. [de] proper
**** Declension
[comp]
**** Derived terms
{{col|de |echtgolden |Echtheit |echt jetzt |echtsilbern |in echt |waschecht }}
**** Descendants
- [bor=1]
*** Adverb
[de-adv]
1. [de] really ; indeed
*** Interjection
[de]
1. [expresses disbelief or shock at new information]
*** Further reading
- [R:de:Duden]
- [R:de:DWDS]
** Kashubian
*** Etymology
[csb].
*** Pronunciation
[csb-pr]
*** Adjective
[-]
1. authentic , genuine , true
*** Further reading
- [echt]
- [+]
** Scots
*** Etymology 1
[sco] [sco], [enm], [enm], [enm], from [sco], from [sco], from [sco], from
[sco].
**** Alternative forms
- [sco]
**** Numeral
[sco]
1. [sco] eight
*** Etymology 2
[sco], from [sco], from [sco].
**** Alternative forms
- [sco]
**** Adjective
[sco]
1. [sco] eighth
*** Etymology 3
**** Verb
[sco]
1. [sco]
*** References
- [entry=aicht]
- [pos=num] https://dsl.ac.uk/entry/dost/echt
- [pos=num. adj.1]
- [pos=num. adj.2]