läuten

Meaning

1. to ring, toll (a bell)
2. to ring, toll
3. to ring (at a door, front desk, etc.)
4. to ring

Concepts

ring

💍

chime

toll

peal

sound

🔉

clink

tinkle

jingle

clang

strike

beat

tintinnabulate

buzz

clank

give a ring

resound

ringing

ring the bell

rung

snort

Synonyms

klingen

💍

tönen

klingeln

💍

gellen

hallen

schallen

🔉

schellen

💍

klirren

schlagen

spielen

klappern

Ton

Klang

🔉

bimmeln

musizieren

Schall

🔉

stürzen

umdrehen

umkehren

umwerfen

wenden

zerstückeln

zufallen

Zusammenstoß

💥

schneuzen

ertönen

🔉

ertönen lassen

die Klingel betätigen

abspielen

gongen

anklingeln

anläuten

anschlagen

berühren

betasten

blasen

geklungen

Geläut

herumdrehen

kippen

klappen

👏

klimpern

Luftsprung

Dialects

Basel-Landschaft

lytte

Basel-Landschaft

schälle

Data provided by: Deutsch-Schweizerdeutsches Wörterbuch

Pronounced as (IPA)

/lɔʏ̯tən/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle High German: liuten

Inherited from Old High German: hlūten

Cognate with Dutch: luiden

In summary

From Middle High German liuten, from Old High German hlūten, from Proto-West Germanic *hlūdijan (“to make sound”), factitive of *hlūdēn (“to sound”), whence lauten. Equivalent to Laut + -en. Cognate with Dutch luiden. In Middle High German, the distinction between both verbs was increasingly lost, i.e. läuten came to be used intransitively. In Modern German, the two forms were then redistributed on semantic grounds: läuten was restricted to bells while lauten survives only in the figurative sense “to read, have a content”.