FromMiddle Dutchdoch, fromOld Dutchthoh, fromProto-West Germanic*þauh, fromProto-Germanic*þauh.

• IPA^(key):/dɔx/

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• Rhymes:-ɔx
• Hyphenation:doch
• Homophone:dog

doch

1. (formal ordated)yet,but,still,on the contrary,no,yes
2. (formal ordated)butrather

• edoch

• Negerhollands:doch,dog
• → Papiamentu:doch,dò(dated)

FromMiddle High Germandoch, fromOld High Germandoh, fromProto-West Germanic*þauh, fromProto-Germanic*þauh. Cognate toOld Englishþēah (Englishthough).

• IPA^(key):/dɔx/(standard)
• IPA^(key):/dɔ/,/do/(chiefly southern Germany and Austria by influence of Bavarian; also in northern Germany in some positions, e.g. beforenicht)

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doch

2. (in response to a negative question or statement)yes;surely;really; on thecontrary

   Das darfst du nicht sagen. —Doch!

   You can’t say that. —Yes, I can!

   Du wirst nicht kommen? —Doch!

   You're not going to come? —Yes, I am!

doch

1. though;yet;but;however;nevertheless

   Ich wollte mir eine Bretzel kaufen,doch ich hatte kein Geld dabei.

   I wanted to buy a pretzel,but I didn't have any money with me.

2. for all that;after all;but

doch

1. after all;yet;however;nevertheless
   • 1918,Elisabeth von Heyking,Die Orgelpfeifen, in: Zwei Erzählungen, Phillipp Reclam jun. Verlag, page 35:

     Auf dem Bahnhof dann, in dem sich senkenden Nebel, ein Gewühl von Pferden und grauen Gestalten, das zuerst unentwirrbar schien und sich danndoch rasch ordnete.

     On the station then, in the sinking fog, a crowd of horses and gray characters that initially looked inextricable, but then put itself in order swiftlyafter all.

2. really;just
3. indicates proposal Why don't you/we

   Kommdoch mal mit.

   Why don't you just come [with us]?

• (really, just): As an emphatic particle,doch often stresses a contrast or a certainty. It is used more frequently in German than its nearest English equivalents and is often best translated into English by rephrasing the surrounding sentence.

• → Kashubian:doch
• → Slovincian:dôch

• “doch” inDuden online
• “doch” inDigitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Borrowed fromGermandoch. CompareSlovinciandôch.

• IPA^(key):/ˈdɔx/
• Rhymes:-ɔx
• Syllabification:doch

doch

1. (emphasizes that previous statement truthfulness is obvious to the speaker.)yet;though

   Synonyms:kò,tec,przecã

doch (notcomparable)

1. though;yet;but;however;nevertheless

doch

1. although,though
   • 1880, Hieronim Derdowski,O panu Czorlińscim co do Pucka po sece jachoł zełgoł dlo swojech druchow kaszubściech‎^[1], page26:

     Począn stękac, chocdoch nidze jego nie bolało.

     He started groaning, eventhough nowhere hurt him

• Stefan Ramułt (1893) “doχ”, inSłownik języka pomorskiego czyli kaszubskiego (in Kashubian), page26
• Sychta, Bernard (1967) “doχ”, inSłownik gwar kaszubskich [Dictionary of Kashubian dialects] (in Polish), volumes 1 (A – Ǵ), Wrocław: Ossolineum, page225
• Jan Trepczyk (1994) “przecież”, inSłownik polsko-kaszubski (in Kashubian), volumes1–2
• Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011) “przecież”, inSłownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi‎^[2]
• “doch”, inInternetowi Słowôrz Kaszëbsczégò Jãzëka [Internet Dictionary of the Kashubian Language], Fundacja Kaszuby,2022

doch

1. still,yet
2. nevertheless