verballhornen

Meaning

to distort, to disfigure (a name, a text etc.)

Concepts

Pronounced as (IPA)
/fɛɐ̯ˈbalhɔʁnən/
Etymology

In summary

After the German printer Johann Balhorn (c. 1550-1604), who printed the first and deficient High German translation of the Middle Low German Lübeck law.

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