From Middle Dutch verminken, a dialectal variant of vermenken (“to injure permanently”), from ver- + menken (variant minken), from the root manc (“a limping or lame person”) (cf. Dutch mank), from Latin mancus (“maimed or defective”), from Proto-Indo-European *man-ko- (“maimed in the hand”), from *man-.
verminken
| Conjugation of verminken (weak, prefixed) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | verminken | |||
| past singular | verminkte | |||
| past participle | verminkt | |||
| infinitive | verminken | |||
| gerund | verminken n | |||
| present tense | past tense | |||
| 1st person singular | vermink | verminkte | ||
| 2nd person sing. (jij) | verminkt, vermink2 | verminkte | ||
| 2nd person sing. (u) | verminkt | verminkte | ||
| 2nd person sing. (gij) | verminkt | verminkte | ||
| 3rd person singular | verminkt | verminkte | ||
| plural | verminken | verminkten | ||
| subjunctive sing.1 | verminke | verminkte | ||
| subjunctive plur.1 | verminken | verminkten | ||
| imperative sing. | vermink | |||
| imperative plur.1 | verminkt | |||
| participles | verminkend | verminkt | ||
| 1) Archaic. 2) In case of inversion. | ||||