entwischen

German

Etymology

Traditionally considered to be a compound of ent- (“away from”) +‎ wischen (“to wipe, scrub”). However, the second component is considered by Cheung to be derived from a different root, Proto-Indo-European *wyedʰ- (“to shoot, take aim, hit, wound”), with Sanskrit व्यध् (vyadh, “to pierce, hit”) and Old Armenian վէրք (vērkʿ, “wound”) as potential cognates.[1]

Pronunciation
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Verb

entwischen (weak, third-person singular present entwischt, past tense entwischte, past participle entwischt, auxiliary sein)

  1. to escape

Conjugation

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References
  1. Cheung, Johnny (2007), “*ṷaid3”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 2), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 410

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