verschlucken

Mane

1. to swallow, swallow up
2. to choke (get food etc. into one's windpipe)

Binavkirî wek

ver‧schlu‧cken

Wekî (IPA) tê gotin

[fɛɐ̯ˈʃlʊkŋ̩]

Etîmolojî

From ver- + schlucken (“to swallow”). In “to swallow up”, the prefix is used in the sense of “entirely, completely”. In “to choke”, it is used in the sense of “wrongly, faultily” (equivalent to English *to mis-swallow).