säugen

Meaning

Concepts

to lactate
to suckle, give suck, nurse, breast-feed

Hyphenated as

säu‧gen

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈzɔʏ̯ɡən/

Inherited from Middle High German

Inherited from Old High German

Cognate with Old Saxon

Cognate with German

In summary

From Middle High German söugen, from Old High German sougen, from Proto-West Germanic *saugijan, from Proto-Germanic *saugijaną (“to cause to suck, nourish”), causative of Proto-Germanic *sūganą (“to suck”). Cognate with Old Saxon sōgian (“to suckle”), modern German Low German sögen (“to suckle”). Related to German saugen (“to suck”).