Etymology From Middle English ich, from Old English iċ, iċċ (“I”, pronoun), from Proto-West Germanic *ik, from Proto-Germanic *ik, *ek (“I”, pronoun), from Proto-Indo-European *eǵh₂óm (“I”). See also ch-, I.
"Behold," she sayd, "and se How bright I am of ble! Ich am not cast away, That can my husband say, [...]"1529, John Skelton, Elynour Rummyng:
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My maysters, ich am an old man, and halfe blinde, […]1561, John Awdelay, The fraternitye of vacabondes:
With cap and knee, ich will serve thee, what should ich more declare.1568, Thomas Howell, Arbor of Amitie:
Kissyng and lying ich see is all one: And chave no mony, chul tell true therfore.1578, George Whetstone, The right, excellent and famous Historye of Promos and Cassandra:
Dost thinke 'chill labor to be poore, No no, ich haue a-doe..Ich will a plundering too.1645, Thomas Davies, The Somersetshire Man's Complaint:
Biology, Ichthyology, Natural sciences, Zoology Ichthyophthiriasis, a parasitic infection of freshwater fish caused by ciliates of genus Ichthyophthirius.
Ich is one of the most common diseases of freshwater fish.1996, Edward J. Noga, Fish Disease: Diagnosis and Treatment, Iowa State University Press (2000), →ISBN, page 95: