Jach

From Polish Jach or Czech Jach.

Jach (plural Jachs)

1. A surname from Polish.

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Jach”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 237.

• IPA^(key): [ˈjax]

Jach m anim (female equivalent Jachová)

1. a male surname

• “Jach”, in Příjmení.cz (in Czech)

From Middle High German joch, from Old High German joh, from Proto-Germanic *juką. Cognate with German Joch, Dutch juk, English yoke, Icelandic ok.

• IPA^(key): /jaχ/, [jɑχ]
• Rhymes: -ɑχ

Jach n (plural Jachen)

1. yoke
   • Luxembourgish translation of Matthew 11:30:

     Mäi Jach ass nämlech net schwéier ze droen, a meng Laascht ass liicht.

     For my yoke is not hard to carry, and my burden is light.

From truncation of personal names beginning with Ja- (e.g. Jan, Jakub, and Jacenty) + -ch.^[1][2]

• Rhymes: -ax
• Syllabification: Jach

Jach m pers

1. a male surname

Jach f (indeclinable)

1. a female surname

• “Jach”, in Internetowy słownik nazwisk w Polsce [Internet dictionary of surnames in Poland], 2022
• Gustaw Pobłocki (1887) “Jach”, in Słownik kaszubski z dodatkiem idyotyzmów chełmińskich i kociewskich (in Polish), 2 edition, Chełmno, page 132