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German
Etymology
See schlagen.
Pronunciation
Verb
schlahn (class 6 strong, third-person singular present schläht, past tense schlug, past participle geschlagen, past subjunctive schlüge, auxiliary haben)
- (now dialectal or poetic) Alternative form of schlagen
- 1778, , Annchen von Tharau, from an originally Low German text known as Anke van Tharaw, in: Volkslieder. Erster Theil, Leipzig, pp. 92–94 (Google) :
Käm' alles Wetter gleich auf uns zu schlahn, / Wir sind gesinnet bei einander zu stahn.- Even if all storms came to hit us, we are determined to stand together.