knobeln

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German

Etymology

Allied to a widely diffused dialectic form knöbel (Upper German), knöwel (Middle German and Low German), ‘joint,’ especially of the fingers.[1]

Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: kno‧beln

Verb

knobeln (weak, third-person singular present knobelt, past tense knobelte, past participle geknobelt, auxiliary haben)

  1. (intransitive) to draw lots
  2. (intransitive) to dice (play with dice)
  3. (intransitive) to ponder; to puzzle over

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References

  1. ^ Friedrich Kluge (2011) “knobeln”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 25th edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN

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