kietelen

Dutch

Alternative forms

• ketelen (obsolete)
• kittelen (dialectal)

Etymology

From Middle Dutch kietelen, ketelen, kittelen, kitelen, from Old Dutch *kitilon, from Proto-West Germanic *kitilōn, from Proto-Germanic *kitilōną, frequentative form of Proto-Germanic *kitōną (“to tickle”), from Proto-Indo-European *geid- (“to stick, jab, tickle”).

Cognate with Middle English kitelen (> English kittle), Low German kettelen, ketelen (“to tickle”), German kitzeln (“to tickle”), Icelandic kitla (“to tickle”), Swedish kittla, kittsla, Danish kilde and perhaps Old Armenian կիծ- (kic-, “to sting, bite”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈki.tə.lə(n)/

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• Hyphenation: kie‧te‧len

Verb

kietelen

1. to tickle

Inflection

Inflection of kietelen (weak)
infinitive	kietelen
past singular	kietelde
past participle	gekieteld
infinitive	kietelen
gerund	kietelen n
	present tense	past tense
1st person singular	kietel	kietelde
2nd person sing. (jij)	kietelt	kietelde
2nd person sing. (u)	kietelt	kietelde
2nd person sing. (gij)	kietelt	kietelde
3rd person singular	kietelt	kietelde
plural	kietelen	kietelden
subjunctive sing.1	kietele	kietelde
subjunctive plur.1	kietelen	kietelden
imperative sing.	kietel
imperative plur.1	kietelt
participles	kietelend	gekieteld
1) Archaic.

Derived terms

• kietelaar
• kieteldood

Descendants

• Negerhollands: kettel