reisen

See also: Reisen

German

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈʁaɪ̯zn̩], [ˈʁaɪ̯zən]
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Etymology 1

From Middle High German reisen, from Old High German reisōn, from Proto-West Germanic *raisōn.

Verb

reisen (weak, third-person singular present reist, past tense reiste, past participle gereist, auxiliary sein)

  1. (intransitive) to travel
Conjugation
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Middle High German rīsen (“to fall, fall out”), from Old High German rīsan (“to fall, fall down”), from Proto-West Germanic *rīsan, from Proto-Germanic *rīsaną (“to rise, move vertically up or down, go”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rey- (“to rise, arise”).

Cognate with Low German risen, Dutch rijzen, Old English rīsan (“to rise”) (modern English rise), Icelandic rísa. More at rise.

Verb

reisen

  1. (intransitive, dialectal) to fall

Further reading

  • “reisen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • “reisen” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
  • “reisen” in Duden online
  • “reisen” in OpenThesaurus.de

Japanese

Romanization

reisen

  1. Rōmaji transcription of れいせん

Middle Dutch

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Dutch *reison, from Proto-West Germanic *raisōn. Equivalent to reise +‎ -en.

Verb

reisen

  1. to travel, to go on a journey
  2. to go on a (military) expedition

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

  • Dutch: reizen
  • Limburgish: reize, rieze
  • → Middle English: reysen, reycen

Further reading

Middle English

Verb

reisen

  1. Alternative form of reysen (“to raise”)

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

Noun

reisen m or f

  1. definite masculine singular of reise
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