knippen

Sentences

Meaning

Concepts

Ik ga de dorre bladeren van de boom
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knippen .

I'm going to cut the dry leaves off the tree.

knip

(first-person, form-of, indicative, present, singular) inflection of knippen:
(form-of, indicative, present, second-person, singular) inflection of knippen:
(form-of, imperative) inflection of knippen:

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈknɪpə(n)/

Inherited from Middle Dutch

Cognate with Middle Low German

Cognate with Low German

Cognate with German

Cognate with Dutch

In summary

From Middle Dutch knippen, further etymology unknown. Directly related only with Middle Low German knippen. Probably onomatopoeic. The sense “to blink” may, at least in part, be due to conflation with knijpen (“to squeeze”). Compare de ogen toeknijpen (“to screw up one’s eyes”); also Low German knippen and kniepen both in the sense of “to blink”, German kniepen. See also Dutch knipperen.