zwingle
Alemannic German
editEtymology
editRelated to German zwingen (“to force”)
Verb
editzwingle
- (Uri, transitive) To force a child to stop crying.
References
edit- Abegg, Emil, (1911) Die Mundart von Urseren (Beiträge zur Schweizerdeutschen Grammatik. IV.) [The Dialect of Urseren], Frauenfeld, Switzerland: Huber & Co., page 61.