zucht

See also: Zucht

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /zʏxt/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: zucht
  • Rhymes: -ʏxt

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch sucht, socht, from Old Dutch *suft (“sigh, sip”), from Proto-West Germanic *sūftu.

Noun

zucht m (plural zuchten, diminutive zuchtje n)

  1. sigh
Derived terms
Descendants
  • Afrikaans: sug
  • Negerhollands: sucht

Interjection

zucht

  1. sigh
Descendants

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch suchte, from Old Dutch suhti, suhte (also sufte which is a hypercorrection), from Proto-West Germanic *suhti, from Proto-Germanic *suhtiz.

Cognate to German Sucht and Old Norse sótt. Related to ziek.

Noun

zucht f (plural zuchten, diminutive zuchtje n)

  1. longing, desire
  2. a pathological desire or craving
  3. (usually used in compounds) a disease, sickness
Derived terms
pathological desire
disease

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

zucht

  1. inflection of zuchten:
    1. first/second/third-person singular present indicative
    2. imperative
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