vergattern
Meaning
- (transitive, weak) to officially commit a soldier to sentry duty and to the respective regulations
- (colloquial, transitive, weak) to impose a duty or punishment on someone
Synonyms
Pronounced as (IPA)
/fɛɐ̯ˈɡatɐn/
Etymology
In summary
From Middle High German vergatern (“to assemble”), a chiefly Central German word alongside Middle Low German gāderen. Cognate to Dutch vergaderen, English forgather. In a military context the word originally meant “to line up troops and issue the orders”. It may later have been associated with Gatter (“grating, fence”), thus “to give someone a boundary that must not be transgressed”. Compare etymology 2 below.
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