zwitschern

Meaning

  1. (weak) to chirp, to tweet, to chatter, to twitter (make the sound of a bird)
  2. (weak) to tell (someone something) by hearsay or clandestinely
  3. (weak) to tweet (post to Twitter)

Frequency

C2
Dialects

Basel-Landschaft

Basel-Landschaft

zwitschere

Data provided by: Deutsch-Schweizerdeutsches Wörterbuch

Pronounced as (IPA)
/tsvɪtʃərn/
Etymology

In summary

Variant of earlier zwitzern, from Middle High German zwitzern, from Old High German zwizzirōn, from Proto-Germanic *twitwizōną. More at twitter.

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