gewahren

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German

Etymology

From Middle High German gewarn, equivalent to gewahr +‎ -en.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡəˈvaːʁən/
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Verb

gewahren (weak, third-person singular present gewahrt, past tense gewahrte, past participle gewahrt, auxiliary haben)

  1. (literary, transitive) to become aware of
    • 1918, Meinrad Lienert, Zürcher Sagen:
      Doch die zwei Königstöchter Hildegard und Berta gewahrten nichts als den weissen Hirsch […].
      But the two princesses Hildegard and Berta saw nothing but the white hart.

Conjugation

References

  1. ^ Friedrich Kluge (1883) “gewahren”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891