widmen

== German == === Etymology === From Middle High German widemen, from Old High German widimen (“gift, give as a gift”), from widimo (“gift”), from Proto-West Germanic *weþmō (“dowry”). Synchronically analyzed as a verbal formation from Wittum (“dowry”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈvɪtmən/ Hyphenation: wid‧men === Verb === widmen (weak, third-person singular present widmet, past tense widmete, past participle gewidmet, auxiliary haben) (transitive) to dedicate, to devote [with accusative ‘something’ and dative ‘to someone’] (reflexive) to attend [with dative ‘to a task, a guest, etc.’] ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Derived terms ==== Widmen Widmung umwidmen === References === === Further reading === “widmen”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎[1] (in German) “widmen” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon “widmen” in Duden online “widmen” in OpenThesaurus.de