suochen

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Middle High German

Etymology

Inherited from Old High German suohhen.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (before 13th CE) /ˈs̠uə̯xən/

Verb

suochen (class 2 weak, third-person singular present suochet, past tense suochete, past participle gesuochet, auxiliary hān)

  1. to seek, to search
  2. to examine
  3. to visit
  4. to persecute

Conjugation

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Alemannic German: sueche, süeche (Uri)
    Alsatian: süacha
  • Bavarian: suacha, suachn
    Cimbrian: züuchan
  • Central Franconian: seeche, sieche, suche (Moselle Franconian); söke (Ripuarian, a Low Franconian relict)
    Hunsrik: suche
    Luxembourgish: sichen
  • East Central German:
    Upper Saxon German:
  • East Franconian:
  • German: suchen
  • Rhine Franconian: suche
    Frankfurterisch:
  • Yiddish: זוכן (zukhn)

References

  • Benecke, Georg Friedrich, Müller, Wilhelm, Zarncke, Friedrich (1863) “suochen”, in Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch: mit Benutzung des Nachlasses von Benecke, Stuttgart: S. Hirzel