räumen

  1. (weak) to clear an area of debris, snow, mines, or other impediments
  2. (weak) to evacuate, to clear an area of people
  3. (weak) to vacate
  4. (weak) to put, to move something to a place deemed more fitting (especially of sets consisting of multiple individual items, or unwieldy large items)

Frequency

B2
Dialects

Basel-Landschaft

Basel-Landschaft

ruume

Data provided by: Deutsch-Schweizerdeutsches Wörterbuch

Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈʁɔɪ̯mən/
Etymology

In summary

From Early New High German reumen, a Central German umlaut variant of the regular form raumen, from Middle High German rūmen, from Old High German rūmen, from Proto-West Germanic *rūmijan, from Proto-Germanic *rūmijaną. By surface analysis, Raum + -en. Raumen was in use in Upper German regions up until the 17th century and is still present in dialects, compare Bavarian rama.

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