reißen

== German == === Alternative forms === reissen (Switzerland, Liechtenstein) === Etymology === From Middle High German rīȥen, from Old High German rīȥan (“to scratch”), from a conflation of two similar verbs:. Proto-West Germanic *wrītan, from Proto-Germanic *wrītaną, from Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“to cut, scratch, tear, sketch an outline”) Proto-West Germanic *hrītan, from Proto-Germanic *hrītaną. Cognate with English rat (“to rip up, tear, rend”), Dutch rijten (“to rip up, tear, rend”), Low German rieten (“to rip, tear, rend”), Luxembourgish räissen (“to scratch, tear, rip apart”), Hunsrik reise, Saterland Frisian riete (“to rip, tear”). Compare also Dutch wrijten (“to argue, quarrel”), English write (“to inscribe, engrave, imprint”), Swedish rita (“to draw, design, delineate, model”), Icelandic ríta (“to cut, scratch, write”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈʁaɪ̯sn̩/, /ˈʁaɪ̯sən/ Hyphenation: rei‧ßen === Verb === reißen (class 1 strong, third-person singular present reißt, past tense riss, past participle gerissen, auxiliary haben or sein) (transitive) to tear (something); to pull (something) apart; to rip (something) [auxiliary haben] (intransitive) to break; to become torn apart [auxiliary sein] (transitive) to snatch; to wrench; to yank; to drag; to tug; to pull on (something) [auxiliary haben] (transitive, of animals) to kill a prey animal [auxiliary haben] (transitive, obsolete) to sketch, to draw [auxiliary haben] ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== Reißbahn, Reißbrett, reißfest, Reißleine, Reißnagel, Reißverschluss, Reißwolf, Reißzug, Reißzwecke Riss ==== See also ==== ritzen === Further reading === “reißen”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎[1] (in German) “reißen” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon “reißen” in Duden online “reißen” in OpenThesaurus.de Friedrich Kluge (1883), “reißen”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891