tëscht

Etymology
Contracted from tëschent (like from ). From northern, from with irregular -wi- → -ü- as in 🇨🇬. Also cognate with 🇨🇬 and eventually 🇨🇬. The onset t- in Luxembourgish (and surrounding varieties of West Central German) is a remarkable relict form without the consonant shift. The rarer variant zwëschen shows the regular development, but is probably influenced by standard German. The languages of the Rhenish Fan include several unshifted relict forms, most importantly, ,. Compare also Ripuarian,.

Preposition

 * 1) between

Usage notes

 * The preposition takes dative when specifying current position, but accusative when specifying movement from a to b.