tauchen
Meaning
- (weak) to dive
- (figuratively,transitive,weak) to immerse, to bathe, to submerge
Concepts
dive
dip
immerse
plunge
duck
submerge
flood
flow
run
stream
dunk
harden
season
soak
steel
temper
toughen
dip in
into
scuba-dive
skin-dive
swim
immerge
Frequency
Hyphenated as
tau‧chen
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈtaʊ̯xən/
Etymology
From Middle High German tūchen, touchen, from Old High German -tūhhan, from Proto-West Germanic *dūkan. Cognate to Dutch duiken, Swedish dyka. The word had become obsolete in Upper German, but was later reintroduced on the basis of Central German dūchen, tūchen and Middle Low German dūken, which had remained common. In the course of this process, the originally strong verb became weak. A derivative with Low German consonantism is ducken (cognate to and synonymous with English duck).
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