spullen
From Middle High German spüelen, from Proto-West Germanic *spōlijan. The original forms were spillen, gespullt with Rückumlaut (compare Ripuarian spöle, jespolt). The u-vowel was then generalized in all forms to avoid the homophony with unrelated spillen (“to play”).
spullen (third-person singular present spullt, past participle gespullt, auxiliary verb hunn)
Regular | ||
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infinitive | spullen | |
participle | gespullt | |
auxiliary | hunn | |
present indicative |
imperative | |
1st singular | spullen | — |
2nd singular | spulls | spull |
3rd singular | spullt | — |
1st plural | spullen | — |
2nd plural | spullt | spullt |
3rd plural | spullen | — |
(n) or (nn) indicates the Eifeler Regel. |