Furche

See also: furchè

German

Etymology

From Middle High German vurch, from Old High German furh, from Proto-West Germanic *furh, from Proto-Germanic *furhs.

The word is an original root noun and shows rests of this declension in Middle High German alongside i-stem forms both with an without umlaut (vürhe, vurhe). From these, weak plurals (vürhen, vurhen) and new singulars in -e were later derived. Prevocalic -ch- < -h- is chiefly (eastern) Upper German, but established itself more widely in order to avoid homonymy with unrelated Fuhre (“cartload”), although this merger did take place in some Central German dialects.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfʊrçə/, [ˈfʊʁ.çə], [ˈfʊɐ̯-], (southern also) [-xə], [-xɛ], (Swiss also) [ˈfur.χə]

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

  (file)

• Hyphenation: Fur‧che

Noun

Furche f (genitive Furche, plural Furchen)

1. (agriculture) furrow
2. (by extension) deep crease, wrinkle etc.

Declension

Declension of Furche [feminine]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	Furche	die	Furchen
genitive	einer	der	Furche	der	Furchen
dative	einer	der	Furche	den	Furchen
accusative	eine	die	Furche	die	Furchen

Hyponyms

soil

• Ackerfurche
• Bachfurche
• Beetfurche
• Erdfurche
• Grenzfurche
• Mittelfurche
• Saatfurche
• Wechselfurche
• Wellenfurche
• Wendefurche
• Winterfurche

skin

• Affenfurche
• Beugefurche
• Endgelenkfurche
• Fingerbeugefurche
• Grundgliedfurche
• Handfurche
• Hautfurche
• Hohlhandfurche
• Mittelfurche
• Mittelgelenkfurche
• Nasenlippenfurche
• Thenarfurche
• Vierfingerfurche

cell

• Teilungsfurche

Derived terms

• furchen

Further reading

• “Furche”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎^[1] (in German)
• “Furche” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.
• “Furche” in Duden online
• “Furche” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon