wellen

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• Rhymes: -ɛlən

From Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), Old Dutch *wellen, from Proto-West Germanic *wallijan.

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wellen

1. to soak, to soften by putting into water

Lua error: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

wellen

1. plural of wel

• IPA^(key): [ˈvɛlən]

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• Hyphenation: wel‧len

wellen (weak, third-person singular present wellt, past tense wellte, past participle gewellt, auxiliary haben)

1. (transitive or reflexive) to wave

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• Wellen

• Wellblech

• “wellen” in Duden online
• “wellen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

From Old Dutch *wellen, from Proto-West Germanic *wallijan.

wellen

1. to well up
2. to boil

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

• Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
• Limburgish: wèlle

• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “wellen (III)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page III
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “wellen (IV)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page IV

From Old English wiellan, from Proto-West Germanic *wallijan. Displaced by modern verb "to boil".

wellen (third-person singular simple present welleth, present participle wellende, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle welled)

1. to boil, to bubble

Lua error: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

• English: well
• Scots: well, wall

From Proto-West Germanic *walljan.

wellen

1. to choose

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

• “wellen”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

• willen
• wollen (conflated with *waljaną)

A merger of Proto-West Germanic *willjan (“to want”) and Proto-West Germanic *walljan (“to choose, select”).

wellen

1. to want
2. to choose

• Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
  • Alemannic German: welle, wella, wölla

    Swabian: wella

  • Bavarian: woian

    Apetlonerisch: walln

    Cimbrian: bölln, béllan

  • Central Franconian: welle
  • German: wollen
  • Luxembourgish: wëllen
  • Rhine Franconian:

    Pennsylvania German: wolle

  • Yiddish: וועלן‎ (veln)

1. Köbler, Gerhard, Althochdeutsches Wörterbuch, (6. Auflage) 2014
2. Joseph Wright, An Old High German Primer, Second Edition