bäcke
Alemannic German
Alternative forms
- bëcke
Pronunciation
- (Zurich) IPA(key): /ˈbækχə/
Verb
bäcke (third-person singular simple present bäcket, past participle päcket, auxiliary haa)
- to chop
- to cough (especially with a dry or fitful cough); to hack
References
- “bëckeⁿ”, in Schweizerisches Idiotikon. Wörterbuch der schweizerdeutschen Sprache (in German), volume 4, 1901, column 1111
- Abegg, Emil, (1911) Die Mundart von Urseren (Beiträge zur Schweizerdeutschen Grammatik. IV.) [The Dialect of Urseren], Frauenfeld, Switzerland: Huber & Co., page 57.