Uechs
Alemannic German
Etymology
From Old High German uohsa, a variant of ahsa (“axle”), from Proto-Germanic *ahsō. Cognate with German Achse, Dutch as, English axle.
Noun
Uechs f
- (Uri, anatomy) armpit
References
- Abegg, Emil, (1911) Die Mundart von Urseren (Beiträge zur Schweizerdeutschen Grammatik. IV.) [The Dialect of Urseren], Frauenfeld, Switzerland: Huber & Co., page 30.