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Wellen

Wellen

See also: wellen, wëllen, and Wëllen

German

Noun

Wellen

  1. plural of Welle

wellen

wellen

See also: Wellen, wëllen, and Wëllen

German

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈvɛlən]
  • Hyphenation: wel‧len

Verb

wellen (third-person singular simple present wellt, past tense wellte, past participle gewellt, auxiliary haben)

  1. (transitive or reflexive) to wave

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Middle English

Verb

wellen (third-person singular simple present welleth, present participle wellende, simple past and past participle wellened)

  1. to boil, to bubble

Old High German

Etymology

A merger of Proto-Germanic *wiljaną (to want) (whence also Old Saxon willian, Old English willan, Old Norse vilja, Gothic 𐍅𐌹𐌻𐌾𐌰𐌽 (wiljan)) and Proto-Germanic *waljaną (to choose, select) (whence Old Norse velja), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *welh₁-.

Verb

wellen

  1. to want
  2. to choose

Descendants