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Czech
Pronunciation
Verb
nech
- second-person singular imperative of nechat
German
Interjection
nech
- pronunciation spelling of nicht
Old Irish
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *nekʷos (“someone, something”); compare nach (“some, any”). Cognate with Welsh neb.
Pronunciation
Pronoun
nech
- someone, anyone, (after a negative particle) no one
For quotations using this term, see Citations:nech.
Inflection
| Case
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Animate
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Neuter
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| Nominative
|
nech
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ní
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| Accusative
|
nech
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| Genitive
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neich
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| Dative
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neuch, neoch
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Further reading
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “nech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940) D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, translation of Handbuch des Alt-Irischen (in German), →ISBN, § 489, pages 309–10; reprinted 2017