schenken

== Dutch == === Etymology === From Middle Dutch schenken, from Old Dutch skenken, from Proto-West Germanic *skankijan, from Proto-Germanic *skankijaną. The verb, which originally was weak, became strong in the early modern period by analogy with related class 3 strong verbs such as drinken. Cognate with English shink (“to pour”), dialectal English skink (“to pour, give as a present”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈsxɛŋ.kə(n)/ Rhymes: -ɛŋkən === Verb === schenken to give as a present, to gift Andreas Nicolai de Saint-Aubain, tr. A.F. Wehlburg, Tafereelen uit den tijd van Christiaan II, koning van Denemarken, Volume 1 (Amsterdam 1849), p. 82-83: to pour from a vessel Gerdina Hendrika Kurtz, Het Haarlemsche stadsrecht van 1245 (Haarlem 1945), p. 20: ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== Negerhollands: skenk → Papiamentu: schenken (dated) == German == === Etymology === From Middle High German schenken, from Old High German scenken, from Proto-West Germanic *skankijan (“to pour, serve”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈʃɛŋkən/, [ˈʃɛŋ.kŋ̍], [-kən] Hyphenation: schen‧ken === Verb === schenken (weak, third-person singular present schenkt, past tense schenkte, past participle geschenkt, auxiliary haben) to give as a present, to gift [with accusative ‘something’ and dative ‘someone’] Synonyms: geben, spendieren, bescheren, verehren, zuwenden, zum Geschenk machen to spare one(self) (something) Synonym: ersparen (transitive, formal) to pour from a vessel, to serve [with accusative ‘something’ (usually required nowadays) and in (+ accusative) ‘in(to) something’] Synonyms: schütten, gießen, einschütten, eingießen, einschenken, ausschenken ==== Conjugation ==== In contemporary German only the regularised forms are used. In older texts one still finds the original forms with Rückumlaut (schankte, geschankt). More rarely there were also secondary strong forms (schank, geschunken). ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== → Ladin: scinché === Further reading === “schenken”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎[1] (in German) “schenken” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon “schenken” in Duden online “schenken” in OpenThesaurus.de