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kiesen

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See also: Kiesen and kieseń

German

Etymology

From Middle High German kiesen, from Old High German kiosan, from Proto-West Germanic *keusan, from Proto-Germanic *keusaną (to choose).

Cognate with Low German kesen, Dutch kiezen, English choose, Danish kyse, Icelandic kjósa, Gothic 𐌺𐌹𐌿𐍃𐌰𐌽 (kiusan).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkiːzən/
  • Audio (Germany):(file)

Verb

kiesen (class 2 strong, third-person singular present (obsolete) kiest, past tense (archaic) kor, past participle (archaic) gekoren, past subjunctive (archaic) köre, auxiliary haben)

  1. (transitive, archaic, partly obsolete) to choose; to select

Usage notes

  • The verb is defective in contemporary German. The present forms (stem kies-) are obsolete and unintelligible to the average native speaker. The past forms (stem kor-) are archaic, but likely to be understood.

Conjugation

Derived terms

Further reading

  • kiesen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • kiesen” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
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Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *kiesan.

Verb

kiesen

  1. to test, to inspect, to assess
  2. to choose, to select

Inflection

More information infinitive, base form ...

Descendants

  • Dutch: kiezen
  • Limburgish: keze

Further reading

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Middle High German

Etymology

Inherited from Old High German kiosan, from Proto-West Germanic *keusan.

Pronunciation

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

Verb

kiesen (class 2 strong, third-person singular present kiuset, past tense kōs, past participle gekorn, past subjunctive küre, auxiliary hān)

  1. to choose

Conjugation

Descendants

References

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