Luxembourgish

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈʃveːsen/, [ˈʃweːsən]

Etymology 1

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From Middle High German sweizen (to sweat, bleed), from Old High German *sweizan, from Proto-Germanic *swaitaną. Cognate with archaic German schweißen (to sweat, bleed), Dutch zweten (to sweat), English sweat.

Verb

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schweessen (third-person singular present schweesst, past participle geschweesst, auxiliary verb hunn)

  1. to sweat
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Etymology 2

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From Middle High German sweizen (“to roast, weld”, -z- and -ʒ-), from Old High German sweizen (to roast), from Proto-Germanic *swaitijaną, causative of etymology 1. Cognate with German schweißen (“to weld”, obsolete also schweizen, swaitzen).

Verb

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schweessen (third-person singular present schweesst, past participle geschweesst, auxiliary verb hunn)

  1. to weld, to solder

Conjugation

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Regular
infinitive schweessen
participle geschweesst
auxiliary hunn
present
indicative
imperative
1st singular schweessen
2nd singular schweess schweess
3rd singular schweesst
1st plural schweessen
2nd plural schweesst schweesst
3rd plural schweessen
(n) or (nn) indicates the Eifeler Regel.