sych

• syk, syke

Inherited from Old English sīċ, from Proto-West Germanic *sīk, from Proto-Germanic *sīką.

• IPA^(key): /siːt͡ʃ/, /sit͡ʃ/
• (Northern) IPA^(key): /siːk/

sych (plural *syches)

1. A small stream or its course.

• English: sitch, sike
• Scots: sike, syke

• “sī̆ch(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

From Middle Welsh sych, from Old Welsh sich, from Proto-Brythonic *sɨx, a loanword from Latin siccus.

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /sɨːχ/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /siːχ/
• Rhymes: -ɨːχ

sych (feminine singular sech, plural sychion, equative syched, comparative sychach, superlative sychaf, not mutable)

1. dry, arid

• syched (“thirst”)
• sychder (“dryness”)
• sychin (“aridity”)
• sychdwr (“drought”)
• sychu (“to dry”)

sych (not mutable)

1. (literary) third-person singular present indicative/future of sychu