/ˈvai̯en/, [ˈvɑɪ̯.ən]
OriginFrom Middle High German wigen, north-western variant of wegen with generalisation of the -i- of the present singular forms, from Old High German wegan, from Proto-West Germanic *wegan.
Cognate with German wiegen, Dutch wegen, English weigh, Danish veje, Icelandic vega. The Luxembourgish verb developed regularly as wigen > *wīen > weien. As still in leien, the original conjugation must have been weien, *wäit, *geweeën; but the forms were adapted by analogy with such verbs as dreiwen, dreift, gedriwwen.
- transitiveto weigh, to measure the weight of
- intransitiveto weigh, to have a certain weight
- transitiveto consecrate, to hallow
Formsweit(present, singular, third-person) · gewien(participle, past) · hunn(auxiliary) · weien(infinitive) · gewien(participle) · weien(first-person, indicative, present, singular) · -(first-person, imperative, singular) · weis(indicative, present, second-person, singular) · wei(imperative, second-person, singular) · weit(indicative, present, singular, third-person) · -(imperative, singular, third-person) · weien(first-person, indicative, plural, present) · -(first-person, imperative, plural) · weit(indicative, plural, present, second-person) · weit(imperative, plural, second-person) · weien(indicative, plural, present, third-person) · -(imperative, plural, third-person) · geweit(participle, past) · geweit(participle)
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