echt

Borrowed from German echt (“real”). The German term originates from Middle Low German echt (“lawful, genuine”), contraction of ehacht, variant form of ehaft (“lawful, pertaining to the law”) from ê(e) (“law, marriage”).

• IPA^(key): /ɛkt/

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  • Rhymes: -ɛkt

echt (comparative more echt, superlative most echt)

1. proper, real, genuine, true to type
   • 2009, January 18, “Ross Douthat”, in When Buckley Met Reagan‎:

     An echt Burkean with a snob’s disdain for the contemporary Republican Party, Hart hinted at a road not taken […] .

   • 1980, Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers, Penguin, p.8

     I had heard [the phrase] in Lamb House, Rye, but it was less echt Henry James than Henry James mocking echt Meredith.

• Chet, Tech., chet, etch, hect-, tech

Borrowed from German echt, from Middle High German echt, from Middle Low German echt.

• IPA^(key): [ˈɛxt]
• Hyphenation: echt

echt (not comparable)

1. (colloquial) echt, genuine, pure, unadulterated

   Synonyms: nefalšovaný, opravdový, ryzí

• echt in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• echt in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
• echt in Internetová jazyková příručka

• IPA^(key): /ɛxt/

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• Hyphenation: echt
• Rhymes: -ɛxt
• Homophone: Echt

From Middle Dutch echt, from Old Dutch *ēhaft, from Proto-West Germanic *aiwahaft.

echt (comparative echter, superlative echtst)

1. authentic, true, genuine, real

   Synonyms: waar, heus

   Antonyms: onecht, nep, vals

• echtheid
• onecht
• rasecht
• in het echt

• Afrikaans: eg
• Petjo: echt, echies
• → Papiamentu: echt

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echt m (uncountable)

1. The institution marriage, matrimony.

   In de echt verbinden

   to bind in matrimony

   Synonym: huwelijk

• echtelijk
• echtgelofte
• echtgenoot
• echtscheiding

• Negerhollands: echt, echte

• ächt (obsolete)

From Middle High German echt, borrowed from Middle Low German echt (“lawful, genuine”). The original form is Middle Low German ēhaft (“lawful”), from ē (“law”) (related to modern Ehe); then ēhacht by the Low German development -ft- → -cht- (compare Nichte); and eventually contracted into echt. Cognate to Old High German ēhaft (“honourable”) and Dutch echt.

• IPA^(key): /ɛçt/

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• Rhymes: -ɛçt

echt (strong nominative masculine singular echter, comparative echter, superlative am echtesten)

1. authentic, genuine, true

   Die Jacke ist aus echtem Leder.

   The jacket is made of genuine leather.

   • 1994, “Es möchte echt sein”, in In Echt, performed by Die Sterne:

     Hallo Lexikon, erklär mir wie das funktioniert / Es möchte echt sein / Echt

     (please add an English translation of this quote)

2. (chiefly colloquial) real; factual

   Synonyms: wirklich, tatsächlich

   Der Film ist nah an der echten Geschichte.

   The film is close to the real story.

3. (mathematics) proper

   echte Teilmenge ― proper subset

• echtgolden
• Echtheit
• echt jetzt
• echtsilbern
• in echt
• waschecht

• → English: echt

echt

1. (chiefly colloquial) really; indeed

   Synonym: wirklich

   Das war echt gut. ― That was really good.

• “echt” in Duden online
• “echt” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

echt

1. Alternative form of aicht (“to own”)

• “echt, v.tr.” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.