wägen

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See also: wagen, Wagen, and Wägen

German

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle High German wegen, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old High German wegan, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *weganą[1], from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *wéǵʰe-, *weǵʰ-. Compare Dutch wegen, English weigh, Danish veje, Swedish väga.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /vɛːɡən/, /vɛːɡn̩/ (standard; used naturally in western Germany and Switzerland)
  • IPA(key): /veːɡən/, /veːɡn̩/ (overall more common; particularly northern and eastern regions)
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: wä‧gen

Verb

Template:de-verb-strong

  1. to weigh something

Conjugation

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Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Friedrich Kluge (1989) “wägen”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN
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