The story
- German · derived fromSeiche“sinking”
- French · derived fromseiche
- English todayseiche
From Swiss French seiche, perhaps from German Seiche (“sinking”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
seiche
Today it means: A short-term standing wave oscillation of the water level in a lake, or other confined body of water such as a fjord, characteristic of its geometry. Full definition →
French seiche ← German Seiche