willfahren

German

Etymology

From Middle High German willenvarn, an univerbation of sīns willen vāren (to act according to someone's wishes), with vāren = to strive; the second part is not identical with German fahren.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /vɪlˈfaːʁən/
  • Hyphenation: will‧fah‧ren

Verb

willfahren (third-person singular simple present willfahrt, past tense willfahrte, past participle (ge)willfahrt, auxiliary haben)

  1. (dated, elevated register) to obey

Conjugation

Derived terms

References

  1. Kluge, Friedrich (1995), “willfahren”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological dictionary of the German language] (in German), 23rd edition, →ISBN, page 891

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