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# An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Annotated/wollen

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​ wollen, verb, ‘to wish, be willing, have a mind to, intend,’ from the equivalent Middle High German wollen (węllen), Old High German wellan (węllan); an anomalous verb; the further details belong to grammar. Compare Old Saxon węllian, willian, Dutch willen, Anglo-Saxon willan, English to will, Gothic wiljan. The connection between the Teutonic root wel, ‘to wish,’ with which Wahl and wohl are also connected, and the equivalent Latin velle is apparent; compare also Sanscrit vṛ (var), ‘to choose, prefer,’ Old Slovenian voliti, ‘to be willing.’ Greek βούλομαι ‘to be willing,’ is, on the other hand, not allied; it is more probably related to Greek ἐθέλω, θέλω, ‘to wish,’ which, like Sanscrit hary, ‘to desire,’ points to an Aryan ghel (ghwel), which would produce in Teutonic likewise a root wël, ‘to be willing.’
# An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Annotated/worfeln

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​ worfeln, verb, ‘to fan, winnow,’ Modern High German only; intensive of werfen.
# An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Annotated/wölben

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​ wölben, verb, ‘to vault, arch,’ from Middle High German and Old High German węlben (from *walbian, hwalbjan), weak verb, ‘to assume a curved shape, vault.’ Compare Old Saxon bihwęlbian, ‘to arch over, cover,’ Dutch welven, Old Icelandic hvelfa, ‘to arch’; allied to Anglo-Saxon hwealf, ‘arched,’ and Gothic hwilftri, ‘coffin’ (literally ‘arch’). The Teutonic verbal root hwelb, hwelf, from Aryan qelp (qelq?) is related to Greek κόλπος, ‘bosom’ (literally ‘arch’); so too Sanscrit kûrcá, Latin culcita, ‘pillow’?.
# An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Annotated/wälzen

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​ wälzen, verb, ‘to roll, trundle,’ from Middle High German węlzen, Old High German węlzen, walzen (from ​*walzjan), weak verb, ‘to roll, turn, trundle’; factitive of walzen, which was originally only intransit. The Teutonic root walt, from Aryan wald, has no cognates in non-Teutonic.
# An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Annotated/wühlen

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​ wühlen, verb, ‘to root, grub up, burrow, rummage, stir up,’ from the equivalent Middle High German wüelen, Old High German wuolen (from *wôljan); ​corresponding to Dutch woelen. With this weak verbal root wôl is connected the Teutonic cognate walo- (see Wahlstatt), to which Old High German and Middle High German wuol and Anglo-Saxon wôl, ‘defeat, ruin,’ are allied.
# An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Annotated/worgen

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​ worgen, see würgen.
# An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Annotated/wund

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​ wund, adjective, ‘galled, chased, wounded,’ from the equivalent Middle High German wunt (d), Old High German wunt; corresponding to Old Saxon and Anglo-Saxon wund, Dutch gewond, and Gothic wunds; properly an old participle with the Aryan suffix to-. There is also an old abstract of the same root with the Aryan suffix -tâ (see Schande?), Modern High German Wunde, ‘wound,’ from Middle High German wunde, Old High German wunta, feminine, to which Old Saxon wunda, Dutch wunde, Anglo-Saxon wund, English wound, correspond. The root on which the word is based would assume the form wen in Teutonic; compare Gothic win-nan, ‘to suffer, feel pain,’ to which Greek ὠτειλή (from *ό-ϝατειλη), ‘wound,’ is usually referred.
# An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Annotated/wägen

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​ wägen, verb, ‘to weigh,’ from Middle High German wëgen; identical with wiegen.
# An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Nix

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​ Nix, m., ‘nixey, water-fairy,’ from MidHG. (very rare) nickes, OHG. nihhus, n. and m., ‘crocodile’; comp. AS. nicor, ‘hippopotamus,’ E. nick, ‘water-sprite’ (Old Nick, applied to the devil), MidDu. nicker, ‘water-sprite,’ OIc. nykr (from *niqiza), ‘water-sprite in the form of a hippopotamus,’ also ‘hippopotamus.’ The OHG. and MidHG. sense ‘crocodile’ is easily associated with the other meanings of the cognates; the prim. signification may be ‘fabulous sea-monster.’ The word is probably based on a Teut. root niq from pre-Teut. nig (Sans. nij, Gr. νίπτω), ‘to wash oneself’; thus Nix would mean orig. ‘a sea-animal that delights in bathing, sea-spirit,’ while the masc. Nix, like AS. nicor, points to Goth. *niqiza, *nikuza-, the corresponding fem. Nixe, preserved only in HG., indicates Goth. *niqisi; OHG. nicchessa, MidHG. *nickese, *nixe, in waȥȥernixe, f., ‘female water-sprite,’ for which in MidHG. męrwîp and męrmeit are used.
# An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Niet

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​ Niet, n., from the equiv. MidHG. niet, m. and f., ‘bolt’; OHG. *hniot is not recorded with this sense. The word is connected with OHG. hniotan, ‘to fasten,’ OIc. hnjóða, vb., ‘to strike, hammer, fix firmly’; the Teut. root hnud, pre-Teut. knut, has not yet been found in other languages.
# An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Niete

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​ Niete, f., ‘blank (in a lottery)’; “adopted in the first half of the 18th cent. after the introduction of lotteries in the Du. fashion, from the equiv. Du. niet, m. and n., ‘nothing, nought,’ the gender of which was changed to fem.; the Du. word exactly corresponded orig. to ModHG. nichts, nicht.” See the latter words.
# An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Nießbrauch

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​ Nießbrauch, m., ‘usufruct,’ allied to nießen; see genießen.
# An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Nippsache

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​ Nippsache, f., ‘toy, trinket,’ ModHG. only, formed from Fr. nippe.
# An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Niß

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​ Niß, f., ‘nit,’ from the equiv. MidHG. niȥ (ȥȥ), f., for hniȥ; corresponding to Du. neet, AS. hnitu, f., and the equiv. E. nit; Goth. *hnits is not recorded. According to the permutation of consonants Gr. κονίς, plur. κονίδες, ‘eggs of lice, bugs, fleas,’ &c., may be akin, if the words in both languages be based on knid. It has also been connected with Slav. gnida. Nuß is not allied.
# An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Nobistrug

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​ Nobistrug, m., ‘underwold, hell,’ borrowed, like Krug, ‘tavern,’ the second part of the compound, in early ModHG. from LG. The first component is MidHG. abis, abyss, m., ‘abyss,’ whence with n prefixed (comp. Ital. nabisso, from the usual combination in abysso), the LG. form Nobisfrung, hence lit. ‘tavern in hell’
# An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Niere

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​ Niere, f., ‘kidney,’ from the equiv. MidHG. nier, niere, OHG. nioro, m. (OHG. also ‘testicle’); corresponding to Du. nier, f., MidE. and MidLG. nêre (to which are allied E. kidney, MidE. kidenêre, from AS. *cȳ̆dneóre, *cȳ̆dneóra?, ‘kidney’; in Scand. nýra, ‘kidney,’ with i- mutation. If the latter indicates Goth. *niuzô, n., the Teut. class has no further cognates; but if we are to assume Goth. *niurô, niurjô, corresponding forms may be found in the other Aryan languages, which have numerous terms for parts of the body in common with Teut.; Goth. *niurô for *niwrô, *negwrô, from Pre-Teut. *neghrôn, which is represented in Gr. by an equiv. γεφρός, ‘kidney, testicle’ (φ for gh); akin further to Lat. nefrones. With regard to Goth. *niu- for *niw-, *nigw-, see Au.
# An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Nieswurz

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​ Nieswurz, m., ‘hellebore,’ from the equiv. MidHG. nieswurz, f.; akin to the preceding word. The name is due to the fact that the pulverised root has been used from the earliest times to produce sneezing.
# An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Niftel

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​ Niftel, f., see Nichte.
# An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Annotated/finster

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​ finster, adjective, ‘dark, gloomy, morose, sullen,’ from the equivalent Middle High German vinster, Old High German finstar; Old Saxon *finistar, as an adjective, is not found, but it may be inferred from a substantive with the same sound, meaning ‘darkness’; the stem is essentially German, but a series of phonetic difficulties (see düster) hamper the discovery of the type. In Old High German there exists besides finster an Old High German dinstar, Middle High German dinster, whose initial d must have been substituted for an earlier (Old Saxon, Gothic) þ; to these Old Saxon thimm, ‘dark,’ corresponds. The interchange of þ and f, judging from the parallel forms under Feile and Fackel, cannot be denied. In that case the root would be þem (see Dämmerung). But Old Saxon thiustri, Anglo-Saxon þŷstre ‘gloomy,’ have no connection with it.
# An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Annotated/fix

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​ fix, adjective, ‘quick, smart,’ first occurs in Modern High German; Latin fixus and its Romance derivatives are not used in this sense; whether borrowed from it or not is doubtful.
# An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Annotated/flach

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​ flach, adjective, ‘flat, shallow, superficial,’ from Middle High German vlach, Old High German flah(hh), adjective, ‘flat, smooth’; compare Dutch vlak, ‘even.’ Akin to the graded forms Anglo-Saxon flôc, English flook, fluke (‘flounder’), North English flook-footed, ‘flat-footed.’ This suggests Latin plaga, ‘district,’ or more probably, on account of its ​meaning, Old Slovenian plosku, ‘flat’; Latin plânus scarcely represents *plagnus (see Flur); related to Greek πλάξ (stem πλακ), ‘surface,’ Greek πλακοῦς, Latin placenta, ‘cake.’ But English flat, Old Icelandic flatr, Old High German flaȥ, ‘flat, level,’ have nothing to do with flach. A Middle German and Low German parallel form of flach is mentioned under Blachfeld.
# An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Annotated/fett

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​ fett, adjective, ‘fat, plump,’ only in Modern High German, introduced by Luther from Middle German and Low German instead of the genuine Upper German feist; Low German fett, compare Dutch vet from an earlier fêtt, Anglo-Saxon fœ̂tt, ‘fat,’ which, with Old High German feiȥȥit, are derived from Gothic *faitiþs; see feist. As to the origin of the Modern High German idiom, sein Fett haben, jemandem sein Fett geben, ‘to get one's due, give any one his due,’ opinions are divided; although the reference to einbrocken, jemandem etwas einbrocken (to play one a trick), &c., supports the assumption of a purely German origin, some etymologists regard it as partly translated and partly borrowed from the French donner à quelqu'un son fait, avoir son fait, others even as an ironical reference to the French faire fête à quelqu'un, ‘to make a person heartily welcome.’
# An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Annotated/fertig

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​ fertig, adjective, ‘ready, complete, dexterous,’ from Middle High German vęrtec, vęrtic (from vart, ‘journey’), adjective, ‘able to walk, walking, in motion, ready, fit,’ Old High German fartîg; Dutch vaardig, ‘ready.’ The adjective, like bereit and rüstig, probably meant originally ‘equipped for a military expedition.’
# An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Annotated/fest

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​ fest, adjective, ‘firm, solid, strong,’ from Middle High German vęst, vęste, Old High German fęsti, adjective, ‘firm, strong, steadfast’; see the corresponding adverb fast, which is not mutated; neither was the adjective originally formed by mutation, since, according to Old Saxon fast, Anglo-Saxon fœst, English fast, Old Icelandic fastr, adjective, ‘firm,’ we have to assume a Gothic *fastu-, which is probably an old to- participle like laut, traut, zart, alt, &c., from the root fas-, ‘to fasten’; *fasta-, literally ‘fastened,’ then ‘firm.’ Gothic still retains only the verb fastan, ‘to keep firm, hold fast.’ See fasten.
# An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Annotated/finden

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​ finden, verb, ‘to find, discover; deem, consider,’ from the equivalent Middle High German vinden, Old High German findan; compare Gothic finþan, Old Icelandic finna, Anglo-Saxon findan, English to find, Old Saxon fîthan, findan, ‘to find.’ Teutonic fenþ, as a strong verbal root from pre-Teutonic root pent; akin to Old High German fęndo, masculine, ‘pedestrian,’ Anglo-Saxon fêþa, ‘foot-soldier,’ Old High German funden, ‘to hasten’?. Some etymologists adduce Latin invenire and Old Slovenian na iti, ‘to find,’ to show by analogy that from a verb of ‘going’ the meaning ‘find’ can be evolved. With the Teutonic root fenþ the equivalent Old Irish root ét- (from pent-) is most closely connected.
# An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Annotated/firn

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​ firn, adjective, ‘old, of last year,’ from Middle High German virne, adjective, ‘old,’ also ‘experienced,’ Old High German firni, ‘old’; corresponds to Gothic faírneis, ‘old,’ Anglo-Saxon fyrn, ‘old,’ Old Saxon fërn, ‘past’ (of years). The reference to the year gone by exists in the Gothic and Old Saxon words, but does not appear to be found in Old High German and Middle High German, although the stem is known to modern Upper German dialects; compare Alemannian fernig, ‘of last year.’ ‘In the preceding year’ is Middle High German vërt, vërne; Middle German and Upper German preserve even now an Old Teutonic adverb fert, fered, ‘in the preceding year’; compare Old Icelandic fjǫrþ, adverb, ‘in the preceding year,’ from Gothic *faíruþ, pre-Teutonic peruti (perouti), Greek πέρυτι, πέρυσι, ‘in the preceding year,’ Old Irish onn-urid, ‘from the preceding year onwards,’ Lithuanian pernai, ‘in the preceding year,’ Sanscrit pa-rut. Hence the idea of ‘the preceding year’ is primitively inherent in the stem per, Teutonic fer; the general sense of time gone by appears in the Teutonic adjective fern and its cognates.
# An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Annotated/feucht

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​ feucht, adjective, ‘moist, damp, humid,’ from the equivalent Middle High German viuhte, Old High German fûhti, fûht, (Gothic *fûhtu- is wanting). The adjective is West Teutonic; compare Low German fucht, Anglo-Saxon fûht, English obsolete, Dutch vochtig, ‘damp.’ An allied root (pū̆k), qū̆k, quak, is assumed for Old Slovenian kysnąti, ‘to grow sour,’ kvasiti, ‘to acidify,’ which are scarcely connected with this word.
# An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Annotated/fillen

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​ fillen, verb, ‘to flay,’ from the equivalent Middle High German villen, Old High German fillen; allied to Fell.
# An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/nahe

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​ nahe, adv., from the equiv. MidHG. nâhe, OHG. nâho, adv., ‘near, nearly.’—
# An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/nachahmen

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​ nachahmen, see ahmen.
# An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/nagen

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​ nagen, vb., ‘to gnaw, nibble,’ from the equiv. MidHG. nagen, OHG. nagan, with the earlier variant gnagan; comp. OSax. and AS. gnagan, E. to gnaw, OIc. gnaga, ‘to gnaw.’ There are also forms with initial k instead of g, Du. knagen, OLG. cnagan, likewise HG. chnagan, ‘to gnaw’; the form nagen originated in gnagen. To the Teut. root gnag, knag, no correspondences have been found as yet in the non-Teut. languages.
# An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/nackt

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​ nackt, nackend, adj., ‘naked, bare, nude,’ from the equiv. MidHG. nackt, nackent, OHG. nacchut, nahhut, adj.; corresponding to Du. naakt, AS. nacod, E. naked, OIc. nǫkkverðr, Goth. naqaþs, with the same meaning; a partic. derivative (see falt) naqe-dó from pre-Teut. nogetó- (OIr. nocht, ‘naked,’ from the prim. form nokto-). In Ind. the form nagná occurs with a particip. na for ta; OSlov. nagŭ, Lith. nu̇gas, ‘naked,’ are formed without a suffix. Nothing further is known concerning the Aryan root nō̆g (allied to Lat. nûdus for *novdus, *nogvidus?), which has a bearing on the history of civilisation, since it implies the correlative ‘non-naked,’ i.e. ‘clad,’ and thus assumes that a sort of dress was worn in the primit. Aryan period. See also bar.
# An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/naß

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​ naß, adj., ‘wet, moist,’ from the equiv. MidHG. and OHG. naȥ, adj.; corresponding to Goth. *nata-, nom. *nats, ‘wet’ (deduced from natjan; see netzen); OSax. and Du. nat. Teut. nata- can scarcely be connected with Sans. nadĭ, f., ‘river,’ because the latter is derived from a root nad, ‘to rush, roar.’ Perhaps Gr. νοτερός, ‘wet’ (νοτέω, ‘I am wet’), points, like the Teut. cognates, to a root not, nod (comp. Naß with Gr. κότος). Netz likewise may be primit. allied; see Netz and netzen. —
# An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/nachschlagen

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​ nachschlagen, see Geschlecht.
# An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/nah

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​ nah, adj., ‘near, impending,’ from MidHG. nâch (inflect. nâher), OHG. nâh (inflect. nâhêr), adj., ‘near’; corresponding to OSax. nâh, LG. and Du. na, AS. neáh, E. nigh, adj. (whence the comp. AS. neár, adv., E. near; superl. next, E. next); OIc. nár, Goth. néhws, ‘near.’ To the Goth. stem nêhwa- (for further derivatives see under Nachbar and nah) we should have expected néko-, nêqe-, in the non-Teut. languages, but they do not occur. Gr. ἐγγύς, ‘near,’ is no more equiv. in sound to nahe than Sans. nā̆́huša, ‘neighbouring."—
# An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/naiv

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​ naiv, adj., ‘naïve, artless,’ borrowed in the last cent. from Fr. naïf.
# An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/naschen

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​ naschen, vb., ‘to pilfer dainties,’ from MidHG. naschen, OHG. nascôn, ‘to partake of dainties, pilfer dainties’; for *hnaskôn, allied to Goth. hnasqus, ‘soft, tender,’ AS. hnęsče, ‘soft, tender,’ E. nesh?.