Dach

• IPA^(key): [ˈdax]

Dach m anim (female equivalent Dachová)

1. a male surname

• “Dach”, in Příjmení.cz (in Czech)

Inherited from Middle High German dach, from Old High German dah, from Proto-West Germanic *þak, from Proto-Germanic *þaką, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *teg-. Cognate with German Low German Dack, Yiddish דאַך (dakh), Dutch dak, Afrikaans dak, English thack, thatch, Danish tag, Norwegian Bokmål tak, Norwegian Nynorsk tak, Swedish tak, Polish dach, Belarusian дах (dax), Ukrainian дах (dax). Akin to Latin toga (“garment”) and Ancient Greek στέγος (stégos, “roof”).

• IPA^(key): /dax/, [däχ]
• Rhymes: -ax

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• Homophone: DACH

Dach n (strong, genitive Daches or Dachs, plural Dächer, diminutive Dächlein n or Dächelchen n)

1. roof
2. (informal) circumflex

   Synonym: Zirkumflex

3. (colloquial) head, especially the scalp

   Du kriegst gleich etwas aufs Dach!

   You'll get something (usu. a smack) on the head!

4. (geology) a rock layer above a seam

• → Belarusian: дах (dax)
• → Polish: dach
• → Ukrainian: дах (dax)

Dach m or f (proper noun, surname, masculine genitive Dachs or (with an article) Dach, feminine genitive Dach, plural Dachs)

1. a surname

• “Dach” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Dach” in Duden online
• “Dach” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.
• Friedrich Kluge (1883) “Dach”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891
• Dach on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de

Inherited from Middle High German dach, from Old High German dah, from Proto-West Germanic *þak, from Proto-Germanic *þaką.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtax/
• Rhymes: -ax
• Syllabification: Dach

Dach m (plural Decher, diminutive Dechelche)

1. roof

   De Dach is foll Reif.

   The roof is full of frost.

• Piter Kehoma Boll (2021) “Dach”, in Dicionário Hunsriqueano Riograndense–Português (in Portuguese), 3rd edition, Ivoti: Riograndenser Hunsrickisch, page 31

Inherited from Middle High German dach, from Old High German dah, from Proto-West Germanic *þak, from Proto-Germanic *þaką.

Dach n (plural Decher)

1. roof

Inherited from German Low German Dag, from Middle Low German dach, from Old Saxon dag, from Proto-West Germanic *dag, from Proto-Germanic *dagaz, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰegʷʰ- (“to burn”).

Cognate with German Tag and English day, among many others. Unrelated to Dak (“roof”) or Dakj (“blanket, cover”), see above.

Dach m (plural Doag)

1. day

• Sinnowent (“Saturday”)
• Wäakj (“week”)
• Moonat (“month”)
• Joa (“year”)

• dach (“bright”)
• dache