reißen

Betekenis

1. (class-1,strong,transitive) to tear (something); to pull (something) apart; to rip (something)
2. (class-1,intransitive,strong) to break; to become torn apart
3. (class-1,strong,transitive) to snatch; to wrench; to yank; to drag; to tug; to pull on (something)
4. (class-1,strong,transitive) to kill a prey animal

Koppelteken as

rei‧ßen

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/ˈʁaɪ̯sn̩/

Etimologie

From Middle High German rizen, from Old High German rīzan (“to scratch”), from a conflation of two similar verbs:.
* Proto-West Germanic *wrītan, from Proto-Germanic *wrītaną, from Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“to cut, scratch, tear, sketch an outline”)
* Proto-West Germanic *hrītan, from Proto-Germanic *hrītaną.
Cognate with English rat (“to rip up, tear, rend”), Dutch rijten (“to rip up, tear, rend”), Low German riten (“to rip, tear, rend”), Luxembourgish räissen (“to scratch, tear, rip apart”), Hunsrik reise, Saterland Frisian riete (“to rip, tear”).
Compare also Dutch wrijten (“to argue, quarrel”), English write (“to inscribe, engrave, imprint”), Swedish rita (“to draw, design, delineate, model”), Icelandic ríta (“to cut, scratch, write”).