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Luxembourgish
Etymology
From riicht (“straight”) + béien (“to bend”).
Pronunciation
Verb
riichtbéien (third-person singular present béit riicht, past participle riichtgebéit, auxiliary verb hunn)
- (transitive) to put right, to rectify
2001, Jeanny Friedrich et al., Eng Klack fir eis Sprooch:Dat kann ee verstoen... ower net, datt eisen 130 Joer alen „Institut Grand-Ducal / Section de Toponymie“ dat ni riichtgebéit huet- One can understand that... but not that our 130-year-old "Institute Grand-Ducal / Toponymy Department" has not recitified it
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