See also: rutteln and Rütteln

German edit

Etymology edit

From Middle High German rütteln, rütelen, rüteln, from rütten (to shake) +‎ -eln (frequentative suffix), from Proto-Indo-European *kreu- (to shake, wave around), related to Tocharian A kru (reed), Tocharian B kärwats, Lithuanian krutéti (to move).[1] Cognate with the first part of Old English hrēaþemūs (bat).[2]

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈʁʏtəln/, [ˈʁʏtl̩n]
  • (file)
  • Hyphenation: rüt‧teln

Verb edit

rütteln (weak, third-person singular present rüttelt, past tense rüttelte, past participle gerüttelt, auxiliary haben)

  1. to shake, to jolt
  2. (falconry, ornithology, of birds of prey) to hover (to float in the air by fast wingbeats)

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See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) chapter 623, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 623
  2. ^ Friedrich Kluge (1995) “rütteln”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 23rd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 697

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