klucht – Dutch noun declension

Dutch noun forms of klucht

Noun: klucht
Gender: Masculine, Feminine Hyphenation:
Sg.klucht
Pl.kluchten

Sample Sentences

  • Ik zag een klucht patrijzen in het veld. (I saw a flock of partridges in the field.)

Etymology

From Middle Dutch cluft, clucht, from Old Dutch *kluft, from Proto-Germanic *kluftiz (whence also German Kluft, English cleft). Equivalent to klieven (“to cleave”) + -t (“verbal noun”), and the Middle Dutch meaning was at first "separation, department", later also "neighbourhood of a town". The sense shifted to its modern meaning only in early modern Dutch times, starting with "nonsense, prattle" and then "joke, humorous story".

Verbs referencing "klucht"

English Nouns cleft, German Nouns Kluft.

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