mäkeln

Significado (Inglés)

to nag; to find fault with

Dialectos

Cantón de Basilea-Campiña

Cantón de Basilea-Campiña

räggele

Datos proporcionados por: Deutsch-Schweizerdeutsches Wörterbuch

Pronunciado como (IPA)
/ˈmɛːkəln/
Etimología (Inglés)

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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