bestueden

Luxembourgish edit

Etymology edit

Derived from the noun at hand in Stad (“city; place”). Compare Middle High German bestaten (“to lead to a place; to furnish; to lend”), which is probably a loan translation of Latin locāre, and this Latin verb also means “to give a girl in marriage” (virginem in matrimonium locare). The same word, with a very different semantic development, is German bestatten (“to bury”).

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /beˈʃtue̯den/, [bəˈʃtuə̯dən]
Rhymes: -uədən

Verb edit

bestueden (third-person singular present bestit, past participle bestuet, auxiliary verb hunn)

(transitive) to marry (to take a spouse)
Hatt wëllt e räichen Acteur bestueden.
She wants to marry a rich actor.
(transitive) to marry (to join in matrimony)
De Paschtouer huet d'Koppel bestuet.
The priest married the couple.