Pfuchahn

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German

Alternative forms

Etymology

pfuch +‎ Ahn, in use in the 17th and 18th centuries, by the 20th century dialectal or obsolete. Pfuch is probably an interjection of disgust like pfui! (“fie”). It is unclear whether this is the actual etymology or just a folk etymological reinterpretation.[1][2]

Noun

Pfuchahn m (mixed or weak, genitive Pfuchahns or Pfuchahnes or Pfuchahnen, plural Pfuchahnen)

  1. (obsolete) great-great-grandfather (an ancestor of five generations ago or beyond)
    Synonyms: Duräni, Pfuschäni, Stinkäni

Declension

Declension of Pfuchahn
singular plural
indef. def. noun def. noun
nominative ein der Pfuchahn die Pfuchahnen
genitive eines des Pfuchahns, Pfuchahnes, Pfuchahnen der Pfuchahnen
dative einem dem Pfuchahn, Pfuchahne1, Pfuchahnen den Pfuchahnen
accusative einen den Pfuchahn, Pfuchahnen die Pfuchahnen

1Now rare, see notes.

References

  1. ^ * “An”, in Schweizerisches Idiotikon. Wörterbuch der schweizerdeutschen Sprache (in German), volume 1, 1885, column 249
  2. ^ Johannes Frisius, Johann Kaspar Suicer, Dictionarium bilingue: latino-germanicum et germanico-latinum (1704)
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