-ieren
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See also: Ieren
German
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- -iren (obsolete, used alternatively until ca. 1900)
Etymology
[edit]From Middle High German -ieren, extracted by rebracketing of verbs borrowed from (Old) French, such as parlieren (Old French parlier + -en), or Italian, such as spazieren (Italian spaziare + -en).
Pronunciation
[edit]Suffix
[edit]-ieren
- Verb suffix: it and its inflected forms are found mainly as a rendering of French, Italian, and Latin suffixes like -ire and -iare in borrowings, but it is also sometimes applied with a factitive meaning to German stems.
- Möbel (“furniture”) + -ieren → möblieren (“to furnish”)
- Zentrum (“centre”) + -ieren → zentrieren (“to centre”)
- halb (“half”) + -ieren → halbieren (“to halve”)
- Buchstabe (“letter”) + -ieren → buchstabieren (“to spell”)
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]Middle High German
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old French -ier.
Suffix
[edit]-ieren
- used in verbs, indicating the action of doing something related to the first part of the word
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
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- German terms derived from Proto-Italic
- German terms derived from Middle High German
- German terms derived from Latin
- German terms derived from Old French
- German terms inherited from Middle High German
- German rebracketings
- German terms derived from Italian
- German 2-syllable words
- German terms with IPA pronunciation
- German terms with audio links
- Rhymes:German/iːʁən
- Rhymes:German/iːʁən/2 syllables
- German lemmas
- German suffixes
- German verb-forming suffixes
- Middle High German terms derived from Latin
- Middle High German terms derived from Proto-Italic
- Middle High German terms derived from Old French
- Middle High German terms borrowed from Old French
- Middle High German lemmas
- Middle High German suffixes