deuten

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German

Etymology

From Middle High German diuten, from Old High German diuten, from Proto-West Germanic *þiudijan whence also comes Old English þēod (people, nation).

Cognate with Yiddish טײַטשן (taytshn), Dutch duiden, Icelandic þýða (translate), Swedish tyda, Danish tyde.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈdɔʏ̯tən/,

Verb

deuten (weak, third-person singular present deutet, past tense deutete, past participle gedeutet, auxiliary haben)

  1. to interpret (e.g. dreams)
  2. to point

Conjugation

Further reading

  • deuten” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • deuten” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
  • deuten” in Duden online
  • deuten” in OpenThesaurus.de