ich
pron.pron. an old way of saying 'I' in some parts of England. It was used by people in the past to refer to themselves.
pron. a first-person singular nominative pronoun representing a dialectal or archaic variant of 'I'. Found primarily in West Country dialects and early modern literary representations of rustic speech.
Ich am a simple man from the village.
In some older English plays, characters from the countryside use 'ich' instead of 'I' to show their local roots.
The playwright used 'ich' to distinguish the rural characters from the urban nobility, reflecting the linguistic diversity of the period before standardisation.
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.
Clipping of ichthyophthiriasis.
Archaic first-person pronoun; functions as the subject of a sentence.