See also: Kiesen and kieseń

German

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Etymology

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From Middle High German kiesen, from Old High German kiosan, from Proto-West Germanic *keusan, from Proto-Germanic *keusaną (to choose).

Cognate with Low German kesen, Dutch kiezen, English choose, Danish kyse, Icelandic kjósa, Gothic 𐌺𐌹𐌿𐍃𐌰𐌽 (kiusan).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈkiːzən/
  • Audio:(file)

Verb

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kiesen (class 2 strong, third-person singular present (obsolete) kiest, past tense (archaic) kor, past participle (archaic) gekoren, past subjunctive (archaic) köre, auxiliary haben)

  1. (transitive, archaic, partly obsolete) to choose; to select

Usage notes

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  • The verb is defective in contemporary German. The present forms (stem kies-) are obsolete and unintelligible to the average native speaker. The past forms (stem kor-) are archaic, but likely to be understood.

Conjugation

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Derived terms

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Further reading

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  • kiesen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • kiesen” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon

Middle Dutch

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Etymology

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From Old Dutch *kiesan.

Verb

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kiesen

  1. to test, to inspect, to assess
  2. to choose, to select

Inflection

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Conjugation of kiesen (strong class 2)
infinitive base form kiesen
genitive kiesens
dative kiesene
indicative subjunctive
present past present past
1st person singular kiese côos kiese cōre
2nd person singular kies, kieses cōors, cōres kies, kieses cōres
3rd person singular kiest, kieset côos kiese cōre
1st person plural kiesen cōren kiesen cōren
2nd person plural kiest, kieset cōort, cōret kiest, kieset cōret
3rd person plural kiesen cōren kiesen cōren
imperative
singular kies, kiese
plural kiest, kieset
present past
participle kiesende gecōren

Descendants

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  • Dutch: kiezen
  • Limburgish: keze

Further reading

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Middle High German

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old High German kiosan, from Proto-West Germanic *keusan.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): (before 13th CE) /ˈkɪe̯s̠ən/

Verb

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kiesen (class 2 strong, third-person singular present kiuset, past tense kōs, past participle gekorn, past subjunctive küre, auxiliary hān)

  1. to choose

Conjugation

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Descendants

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References

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  • Benecke, Georg Friedrich, Müller, Wilhelm, Zarncke, Friedrich (1863) “kiesen”, in Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch: mit Benutzung des Nachlasses von Benecke, Stuttgart: S. Hirzel