-lech

Appendix:Variations of "lech" Luxembourgish Etymology lb gem-pro From lb gmh -lich, from lb goh -līh, from lb gmw-pro *-līk. Pronunciation lb /ləɕ/ Suffix lb suffix -like, -ly, -ous Derived terms lb Category:Limburgish shifted terms Middle High German Etymology Often taken to derive from earlier gmh -ech, gmh -ehe (etc), from the gmh goh - collective suffix goh -ahi (de -ach, de -ich, as in de Kräuterich), with the origin of the -l- being unclear (some instances seem to be attested as early as Old High German, e.g. goh chrūtelīh, whence gmh krûtelech). The suffix is found on singular as well as plural nouns, often with collective meaning but sometimes with diminutive meaning; in various dialects and descendants, it came to be treated as a plural of the diminutive suffix -l.Peter O. Müller, Substantiv-Derivation in den Schriften Albrecht Dürers, 1993, §II.1.4.21 (p. 378) Sometimes connected to goh -līh (whence de -lich) instead. Suffix gmh suffix diminutive suffixes gmh dialectal suffix used to form singular and plural nouns with collective and diminutive meaning gmh dingelich, gmh krûtelech Alternative forms gmh -lach, gmh -lich, gmh -lêhe Descendants via one or more dialects yi ־לעך several dialects vmf -lich around Tripitis [Vogtland] gmw-ecg -lich around Landau [Rheinpfalz] gmw-rfr -lich References Further reading Fritz Hastenpflug, Das Diminutiv in der deutschen Originalliteratur des 12. und 13. Jahrhunderts (1914) Anthony R. Rowley, “Zur Pluralbildung in den Deutschen Dialekten: -ach-Plurale und Verwandte Erscheinungen im Oberdeutschen.” Zeitschrift für Dialektologie und Linguistik, vol. 61, no. 1, 1994, pp. 3–30. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/40504842 Gertraud Winkler, Die Wortbildung mit "-lich" im Alt-, Mittel- und Frühneuhochdeutschen (1995)