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zerren
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German
Etymology
From Middle High German zerren, from Old High German zerren, from Proto-Germanic *tarjaną, and hence a doublet of German zehren, which see for the ultimate source.
The geminated -rr- is irregular and probably intensive (compare the same in Middle Low German terren, Middle Dutch terren, both alongside tēren). Compare English tear.
Pronunciation
Verb
zerren (weak, third-person singular present zerrt, past tense zerrte, past participle gezerrt, auxiliary haben)
Conjugation
1Rare except in very formal contexts; alternative in würde normally preferred.
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Ladin: zaré
Further reading
- “zerren” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “zerren” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
- “zerren” in Duden online
- “zerren” in OpenThesaurus.de
- Friedrich Kluge (1883), “zerren”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891
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