wehen

See also: Wehen

German

Etymology

From Middle High German wæjen, from Old High German wāen, from Proto-West Germanic *wāan, from Proto-Germanic *wēaną, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wḗh₁ti, a form of *h₂weh₁-. Compare Dutch waaien.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈveː.ən/
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  • Rhymes: -eːən

Verb

wehen (weak, third-person singular present weht, past tense wehte, past participle geweht, auxiliary haben)

  1. (intransitive) to blow (wind, a storm, etc.)
    Der Wind weht heute Morgen kalt und böig.
    The wind is blowing cold and gusty this morning.
  2. (intransitive) to flutter, to wave (in the wind); to fly (of a flag)
    Die Nationalflagge wehte über der Einweihung des Präsidenten.
    The national flag flew over the President's inauguration.

Conjugation

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Derived terms

Further reading
  • “wehen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • “wehen” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
  • “wehen” in Duden online
  • “wehen” in OpenThesaurus.de
  • Friedrich Kluge (1883), “wehen”, in , John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891
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