reißen

Meaning

1. (class-1,strong,transitive) to tear (something); to pull (something) apart; to rip (something)
2. (class-1,intransitive,strong) to break; to become torn apart
3. (class-1,strong,transitive) to snatch; to wrench; to yank; to drag; to tug; to pull on (something)
4. (class-1,strong,transitive) to kill a prey animal

Hyphenated as

rei‧ßen

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈʁaɪ̯sn̩/

Etymology

From Middle High German rizen, from Old High German rīzan (“to scratch”), from a conflation of two similar verbs:.
* Proto-West Germanic *wrītan, from Proto-Germanic *wrītaną, from Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“to cut, scratch, tear, sketch an outline”)
* Proto-West Germanic *hrītan, from Proto-Germanic *hrītaną.
Cognate with English rat (“to rip up, tear, rend”), Dutch rijten (“to rip up, tear, rend”), Low German riten (“to rip, tear, rend”), Luxembourgish räissen (“to scratch, tear, rip apart”), Hunsrik reise, Saterland Frisian riete (“to rip, tear”).
Compare also Dutch wrijten (“to argue, quarrel”), English write (“to inscribe, engrave, imprint”), Swedish rita (“to draw, design, delineate, model”), Icelandic ríta (“to cut, scratch, write”).