Pfuchahn

German

Alternative forms

Pfuchähne, Pfuchäni, Vukähni

Etymology

pfuch +‎ Ahn, in use in the 17th and 18th centuries, by the 20th century dialectal or obsolete. Pfuch is probably an interjection of disgust like pfui! (“fie”). It is unclear whether this is the actual etymology or just a folk etymological reinterpretation.^[1]^[2]

Noun

Pfuchahn m (mixed or weak, genitive Pfuchahns or Pfuchahnes or Pfuchahnen, plural Pfuchahnen)

(obsolete) great-great-grandfather (an ancestor of five generations ago or beyond)
Synonyms: Duräni, Pfuschäni, Stinkäni

Declension

Declension of Pfuchahn [masculine, mixed // weak]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Pfuchahn	die	Pfuchahnen
genitive	eines	des	Pfuchahns, Pfuchahnes, Pfuchahnen	der	Pfuchahnen
dative	einem	dem	Pfuchahn, Pfuchahne¹, Pfuchahnen	den	Pfuchahnen
accusative	einen	den	Pfuchahn, Pfuchahnen	die	Pfuchahnen

¹Now rare, see notes.

References

^ * “An”, in Schweizerisches Idiotikon. Wörterbuch der schweizerdeutschen Sprache^[1] (in German), volume 1, 1885, column 249
^ Johannes Frisius, Johann Kaspar Suicer, Dictionarium bilingue: latino-germanicum et germanico-latinum (1704)[2]

[1] * “An”, in Schweizerisches Idiotikon. Wörterbuch der schweizerdeutschen Sprache^[1] (in German), volume 1, 1885, column 249

[2] Johannes Frisius, Johann Kaspar Suicer, Dictionarium bilingue: latino-germanicum et germanico-latinum (1704)[2]

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