aitch

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From Middle English ache, borrowed from Old French ache, from Vulgar Latin *acca. The source is unclear, but may descend from the vowelless alphabetic sequence ha ka 'H, K' (becoming [aka] when the [h] ceased to be pronounced), as K had low frequency in Late Latin. Doublet of ecchi.

61 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: إِتْش (ʔeytš) — name of the letter H, h
• Arabic: هَا (hā) — name of the letter H, h
• Asturian: hache — name of the letter H, h
• Bengali: এইচ (eic) — name of the letter H, h
• Bulgarian: хаш (haš) — name of the letter H, h
• Catalan: hac — name of the letter H, h
• Chinese Mandarin: H (éichi) — name of the letter H, h
• Czech: há — name of the letter H, h
• Dutch: haa — name of the letter H, h
• Esperanto: ho — name of the letter H, h
• Faroese: há — name of the letter H, h
• Finnish: hoo — name of the letter H, h
• French: âche — name of the letter H, h
• French: ache — name of the letter H, h
• Galician: hache — name of the letter H, h
• German: Ha — name of the letter H, h
• Greek: έιτς (éits) — name of the letter H, h
• Hawaiian: hē — name of the letter H, h
• Hindi: एच (ec) — name of the letter H, h
• Hungarian: há — name of the letter H, h
• Icelandic: há — name of the letter H, h
• Ido: he — name of the letter H, h
• Indonesian: ha — name of the letter H, h
• Irish: héis — name of the letter H, h
• Italian: acca — name of the letter H, h
• Japanese: エイチ (eichi) — name of the letter H, h
• Korean: 에이치 (eichi) — name of the letter H, h
• Latin: hā — name of the letter H, h
• Latvian: hā — name of the letter H, h
• Lithuanian: ha — name of the letter H, h
• Malay: hec — name of the letter H, h
• Manx: hibbin — name of the letter H, h
• Marathi: एच (ec) — name of the letter H, h
• Middle English: ache — name of the letter H, h
• Middle English: uhe — name of the letter H, h
• Occitan: acha — name of the letter H, h
• Old English: hah — name of the letter H, h
• Old English: hake — name of the letter H, h
• Persian: هاش (hâš) — name of the letter H, h
• Persian: ایچ (eyč) — name of the letter H, h
• Polish: h — name of the letter H, h
• Polish: samo h — name of the letter H, h
• Portuguese: agá — name of the letter H, h
• Romanian: haș — name of the letter H, h
• Russian: эйч (ejč) — name of the letter H, h
• Russian: аш (aš) — name of the letter H, h
• Russian: ха (xa) — name of the letter H, h
• Spanish: hache — name of the letter H, h
• Swedish: hå — name of the letter H, h
• Tagalog: eyts — name of the letter H, h
• Tagalog: ha (Abakada) — name of the letter H, h
• Tagalog: atse — name of the letter H, h
• Thai: เอช (éech) — name of the letter H, h
• Thai: เฮช (héech) — name of the letter H, h
• Turkish: he — name of the letter H, h
• Ukrainian: ейч (ejč) — name of the letter H, h
• Ukrainian: аш (aš) — name of the letter H, h
• Ukrainian: га (ha) — name of the letter H, h
• Vietnamese: hắt — name of the letter H, h
• Vietnamese: hờ — name of the letter H, h
• Welsh: aetsh — name of the letter H, h