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bestueden

bestueden

Luxembourgish

Verb

bestueden ‎(third-person singular present bestuet, past participle bestuet, auxiliary verb hunn)

  1. (transitive) to marry (to take a spouse)
    Hatt wëllt e räichen Acteur bestueden.
    She wants to marry a rich actor.
  2. (transitive) to marry (to join in matrimony)
    De Paschtouer huet d'Koppel bestuet.
    The priest married the couple.

Etymology

Derived from the noun at hand in Stad ‎(“city; place”). Compare Middle High German bestaten ‎(“to lead to a place; to furnish; to lend”), which is probably a loan translation of Latin locāre, and this Latin verb also means “to give a girl in marriage” (virginem in matrimonium locare). The same word, with a very different semantic development, is German bestatten ‎(“to bury”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bəˈʃtuədən/
  • Rhymes: -uədən

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