wägen

See also: wagen, Wagen, and Wägen

German

Etymology

From Middle High German wegen, from Old High German wegan, from Proto-Germanic *weganą[1], from Proto-Indo-European *wéǵʰe-, *weǵʰ-. Compare Dutch wegen, English weigh, Danish veje, Swedish väga.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /vɛːɡən/, /vɛːɡn̩/
  • (file)
  • Hyphenation: wä‧gen

Verb

wägen (class 3 strong, third-person singular simple present wägt, past tense wog, past participle gewogen, auxiliary haben)

  1. to weigh something

Conjugation

Derived terms

References

  1. Kluge, Friedrich (1989), “wägen”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological dictionary of the German language] (in German), 22nd edition, →ISBN
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