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”).
kietelen
| Conjugation 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, kietel2 | 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. 2) In case of inversion. | ||||