different between seah vs sech

English

Etymology

From Hebrew ????????

Noun

seah (plural seahs)

1. (historical units of measure) A former Hebrew unit of dry volume, about 7.7 L or 7 quarts.

Meronyms

• cab, kab (¹?₆ seah); ephah, epha (3 seahs); lethek, lethech (15 seahs); homer, chomer, cor, kor (30 seahs)

References

• "Weights and Measures" at Oxford Biblical Studies Online

Anagrams

• Ashe, Eash, HAES, HEAs, Hase, Shea, ashe, hase, shea

Translingual

Symbol

sech

1. (mathematics) The symbol of the hyperbolic function hyperbolic secant.

Usage notes

The symbol sech is prescribed by the ISO 80000-2:2019 standard. The symbol sch is also in use, and is especially favoured in French- and Russian-language texts.

See also

• csch
• coth
• arcsech

English

Determiner

sech

1. (Southern US) Pronunciation spelling of such.

Anagrams

• Ches., Esch, hESC

Luxembourgish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ze?/, [z??]

Pronoun

sech

1. third-person masculine singular, reflexive: himself
2. third-person feminine singular, reflexive: herself
3. third-person neuter singular, reflexive: itself
4. third-person plural, reflexive: themselves

Declension

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *sek?o- (“besides, without”), from Proto-Indo-European *sek?- (“to follow”) or *sek- (“to cut”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?ex/

Preposition

sech (with accusative)

1. past, beyond
2. different from
   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 73^d7

Inflection

Forms combined with the definite article:

• sechin (“different from the m sg or f sg”)
• secha (“different from the n sg”)
• sechna (“different from the pl”)

Forms combined with a possessive determiner:

• sechmo (“different from my”)

Forms combined with the relative pronoun:

• secha

Descendants

• Irish: seach
• Manx: shagh
• Scottish Gaelic: seach

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “1 sech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940, reprinted 2003) D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, ?ISBN, §§ 434, 853, pages 273, 530

References

Romansch

Alternative forms

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Surmiran) sitg, setg
• (Sursilvan) schetg, sec
• (Sutsilvan) sétg

Etymology

From Latin siccus.

Adjective

sech m (feminine singular secha, masculine plural sechs, feminine plural sechas)

1. (Puter, Vallader) dry

Welsh

Adjective

sech (not mutable)

1. feminine singular of sych

Verb

sech (not mutable)

1. Contraction of basech.