vocht
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /vɔxt/
Audio: (file) - Hyphenation: vocht
- Rhymes: -ɔxt
Etymology 1
From Middle Dutch vucht, vocht. Substantivized form of an identical adjective, from Old Dutch *fuhti (“humid, wet, damp; marsh-like”), from Proto-West Germanic *fų̄ht, from Proto-Germanic *funhtijaz (“humid, wet, damp”).
In Middle Dutch the word gradually shifted from being an adjective to being a noun, with the old adjective being replaced by vochtig (“humid, wet”).
Cognate with Old English fuht (“moist, damp”) and German feucht (“wet, humid, damp”).
Noun
vocht n (uncountable)
Derived terms
- lichaamsvocht
- longvocht
- vochtbalans
- vochtig
- vochtindringing
- vochtplek
- voorvocht
- wondvocht
Descendants
- Negerhollands: vocht
Adjective
vocht (comparative vochter, superlative vochtst)
Declension
| Declension of vocht | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| uninflected | vocht | |||
| inflected | vochte | |||
| comparative | vochter | |||
| positive | comparative | superlative | ||
| predicative/adverbial | vocht | vochter | het vochtst het vochtste | |
| indefinite | m./f. sing. | vochte | vochtere | vochtste |
| n. sing. | vocht | vochter | vochtste | |
| plural | vochte | vochtere | vochtste | |
| definite | vochte | vochtere | vochtste | |
| partitive | vochts | vochters | — | |
Etymology 2
Verb
vocht
- singular past indicative of vechten