wallen

Meaning

  1. (intransitive, weak) to move violently, to seethe (of boiling liquid)
  2. (formal, intransitive, weak) to roil (of the sea)
  3. (formal, weak) to undulate, to flutter, to palpitate
  4. (formal, weak) to move (somewhere) while undulating, to billow, to flow

Etymology

In summary

From Middle High German wallen, from Old High German wallan (“spin, twist, dance”), from Proto-West Germanic *wallan, from Proto-Germanic *wallaną. Cognate with English to well up.

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