German

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Etymology

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Cognate with Polish dudlić (to play the bagpipes).[1]

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈduːdl̩n]
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  • Hyphenation: du‧deln
  • Rhymes: -uːdl̩n

Verb

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dudeln (weak, third-person singular present dudelt, past tense dudelte, past participle gedudelt, auxiliary haben)

  1. (music) to play incessantly

Conjugation

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References

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  1. ^ Friedrich Kluge (1883) “dudeln”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891

Further reading

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  • dudeln” in Duden online
  • dudeln” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache