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Central Franconian
- kneipe (northernmost Moselle Franconian)
Etymology
Possibly an unshifted relict, but regarding that the verb is restricted chiefly to the secondary sense “to blink” and has weak conjugation, probably borrowed from a Low Franconian dialect, from Middle Dutch knīpen, from Proto-West Germanic *knīpan.
Pronunciation
Verb
kniepe (third-person singular present kniep, past participle jekniep)
- (Ripuarian) to blink, wink
- (Ripuarian, rare) to squeeze, pinch
- Synonym: petsche
German
Verb
kniepe
- inflection of kniepen:
- first-person singular present
- first/third-person singular subjunctive I
- singular imperative