kiesen

From Middle High German kiesen, from Old High German kiosan, from Proto-West Germanic *keusan, from Proto-Germanic *keusaną (“to choose”).

Cognate with Low German kesen, Dutch kiezen, English choose, Danish kyse, Icelandic kjósa, Gothic 𐌺𐌹𐌿𐍃𐌰𐌽 (kiusan).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkiːzən/

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kiesen (class 2 strong, third-person singular present (obsolete) kiest, past tense (archaic) kor, past participle (archaic) gekoren, past subjunctive (archaic) köre, auxiliary haben)

1. (transitive, archaic, partly obsolete) to choose; to select

• The verb is defective in contemporary German. The present forms (stem kies-) are obsolete and unintelligible to the average native speaker. The past forms (stem kor-) are archaic, but likely to be understood.

• erkiesen
• auserkiesen

• kören
• Kür
• küren

• “kiesen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “kiesen” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon

From Old Dutch *kiesan.

kiesen

1. to test, to inspect, to assess
2. to choose, to select

• Dutch: kiezen
• Limburgish: keze

• “kiesen (II)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “kiesen”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN

Inherited from Old High German kiosan, from Proto-West Germanic *keusan.

• IPA^(key): (before 13^th CE) /ˈkiə̯s̠ən/

kiesen (class 2 strong, third-person singular present kiuset, past tense kōs, past participle gekorn, past subjunctive küre, auxiliary hān)

1. to choose

• German: kiesen

• Benecke, Georg Friedrich, Müller, Wilhelm, Zarncke, Friedrich (1863) “kiesen”, in Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch: mit Benutzung des Nachlasses von Benecke, Stuttgart: S. Hirzel