rücken

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German

Etymology

From Middle High German rücken, Old High German rucchen, from Proto-West Germanic *rukkijan. Cognate with Old Norse rykkja, Old English roccian, English rock.[1]

Pronunciation

Verb

rücken (weak, third-person singular present rückt, past tense rückte, past participle gerückt, auxiliary haben or sein)

  1. (transitive) to move, to push
  2. (intransitive) to move over

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References

  1. ^ Friedrich Kluge (1883) “rücken”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891

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