tauchen

Meaning

  1. (weak) to dive
  2. (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

C1
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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