Seiche

== German == === Etymology 1 === From Middle High German seiche f, seich m (“urine; urination”), from Old High German seih m (“urine”), from Old High German seihhen, seichen (“to melt, liquify, strain, urinate”), from Proto-West Germanic *saikijan, from Proto-Germanic *saikijaną (“to make drip”), causative of *sīhwaną (“to filter, strain”). Related to German seihen. ==== Pronunciation ==== IPA(key): /ˈzaɪ̯çə/ Rhymes: -aɪ̯çə ==== Noun ==== Seiche f (genitive Seiche, no plural) (Upper German, colloquial, vulgar) urine, piss (Upper German, colloquial, vulgar, derogatory) bullshit, nonsense, twaddle ===== Declension ===== ===== Synonyms ===== Seich ===== Related terms ===== Kuhseiche seichen === Etymology 2 === From Swiss French seiche. ==== Pronunciation ==== IPA(key): /sɛʃ/ ==== Noun ==== Seiche f (genitive Seiche, plural Seiches) (hydrology) seiche ===== Declension ===== === Further reading === Seiche on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de “Seiche”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎[3] (in German) “Seiche” in Duden online “Seiche” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon