rütteln

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German

Etymology

From Middle High German rütteln, rütelen, rüteln, from rütten (to shake) +‎ -eln (frequentative suffix), from Proto-Indo-European *kreu- (to shake, wave around), related to Tocharian A kru (reed), Tocharian B kärwats, Lithuanian krutéti (to move).[1] Cognate with the first part of Old English hrēaþemūs (bat).[2]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈʁʏtəln/,
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  • Hyphenation: rüt‧teln

Verb

rütteln (weak, third-person singular present rüttelt, past tense rüttelte, past participle gerüttelt, auxiliary haben)

  1. to shake, to jolt
  2. (falconry, ornithology, of birds of prey) to hover (to float in the air by fast wingbeats)

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References

  1. ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) “623”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 623
  2. ^ Friedrich Kluge (1995) “rütteln”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 23rd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 697

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