lügen
- (class-2, intransitive, strong) to tell a lie; to lie (to intentionally give false information)
- (class-2, intransitive, strong) to give false information (unintentionally)
Frequency
Dialects
Zürich
lüge
Aargau
lüge
Bern
lüge
St. Gallen
lüge
Zug
lüge
Solothurn
lüge
Zürich
lügä
Basel-Stadt
liege
Bern
lügä
Lucerne
lüge
Basel-Landschaft
liege
Zürich
lüüge
Thurgau
lüge
Thurgau
lügä
Graubünden
lüga
St. Gallen
lüüge
Schwyz
lüge
Thurgau
lüüge
Valais
leigu
Zug
lüüge
Zürich
lühe
Aargau
lügä
Aargau
liege
Aargau
lüegä
Appenzell Innerrhoden
lööge
Bern
lüüge
Basel-Landschaft
lüege
Basel-Landschaft
lüüge
Basel-Stadt
liegä
Fribourg
lüge
Lucerne
lüüge
Obwalden
liigä
Obwalden
ligä
St. Gallen
lüüga
St. Gallen
lüga
Schaffhausen
lügä
Data provided by: Deutsch-Schweizerdeutsches Wörterbuch
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈlyːɡən/
Etymology
In summary
From Middle High German liegen, from Old High German liogan, from Proto-West Germanic *leugan, from Proto-Germanic *leuganą, from Proto-Indo-European *lewgʰ-. Cognate with Bavarian liagn, Dutch liegen, Low German liegen, legen, lögen, English lie, Danish lyve, Swedish ljuga. The expected form is Early Modern German liegen; that with -ü- has been standardized to avoid homophony with unrelated liegen (“to lie, be in a horizontal position”). The vowel was transferred from the noun Lüge, where it is original, facilitated by a phonetic merger of these vowels in some dialects. A reinforcing influence may have been the inherited 2nd and 3rd person-singular forms (from Middle High German liuges, liuget), which had /yː/ in non-diphthongising dialects (such as Alemannic German).
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