hängen

Significado (Inglés)

to hang, to be suspended
to be attached to; to be fond of; to be devoted to; to cling to
(informal) to depend
(colloquial) to hang, to suspend

colgar

pender

ahorcar

acurrucarse

ahorrar

suspender

enganchar

bezañ krouget

ser colgado

no responder

ahorcarse

colgarse

tenderse

guindar

fijar

aferrarse

estar apegado

estar colgado

estar pendiente

estar suspendido

ahorcamiento

suspenderse

depender

Frecuencia

Con guión como

hän‧gen

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ˈhɛŋən/

From a conflation of three interrelated verbs all originally meaning “to hang”, but varying in their transitivity and intransitivity: 1.) Middle High German hāhen (transitive and intransitive), from Old High German hāhan (chiefly transitive [sic]), a strong verb with past forms hieng, gehangan, from Proto-West Germanic *hą̄han, from Proto-Germanic *hanhaną (intransitive). 2.) Middle High German hangen, from Middle High German hangēn (both intransitive). 3.) Middle High German hengen (“to hang, to dangle, to let go, to allow”), from Old High German hengen (“idem”), from Proto-West Germanic *hangijan, from Proto-Germanic *hangijaną (“to hang”, transitive). Because of various interferences in the inflected forms, due to grammatischer Wechsel, umlaut and Rückumlaut, these three verbs were bound to be intermingled. Verbs 1 and 2 were merged in such a way that the present stem hang- was combined with the strong past forms of hāhen. This development is first attested in the north and seems to have spread from Middle Low German hangen to Central German dialects of Middle High German (14th century). The transitive verb 3 (hängen) was kept separate into the 20th century, at least by prescription, but the present stem is now häng- for all uses. The split is upheld in the past forms, but is not consistently followed outside of formal contexts. Cognate to Dutch hangen, English hang.