bewegen
Meaning
to motivate; to persuade; to prompt (someone or something to do something); to make (someone or something to do something); to induce; to get (someone or something to do something)
Frequency
Hyphenated as
be‧we‧gen
Pronounced as (IPA)
/bəˈveːɡən/
Etymology
From Middle High German biwegen, from Old High German biwegan, from Proto-West Germanic *wegan, from Proto-Germanic *weganą (“to move”), which stems from Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ-. Compare English beweigh.
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