schmachten

German

Etymology

Borrowed from Low German and Middle Low German smachten, from Old Saxon, from a variant of Proto-Germanic *smēhaz (small, little). See also Ancient Greek μικρός (mikrós, a little of), Latin mica.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈʃmaxtn̩/
  • Hyphenation: schmach‧ten
  • (file)

Verb

schmachten (weak, third-person singular present schmachtet, past tense schmachtete, past participle geschmachtet, auxiliary haben)

  1. to languish
  2. to pine

Conjugation

Derived terms

References

  1. Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 2807

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