mäkeln

Betekenis (Engels)

to nag; to find fault with

Dialekte

Kanton Basel-Land

Kanton Basel-Land

räggele

Data verskaf deur: Deutsch-Schweizerdeutsches Wörterbuch

Uitgespreek as (IPA)
/ˈmɛːkəln/
Etimologie (Engels)

Borrowed from German Low German [Term?]. The verb originally means “do business” and pertains to Makler (“broker”). It is not necessarily, however, the origin of this latter noun, whose attestations are significantly older. Rather it seems to be a back-formation. The further semantic development of the verb via “to haggle”, probably reinforced by unrelated Makel (“fault”).

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