knabbelen
Dutch
Etymology
Compare German knabbern (“to nibble”). Both could ultimately be from Proto-Indo-European *gnet- (“to press”),[1] or imitative.[2]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈknɑ.bə.lə(n)/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: knab‧be‧len
- Rhymes: -ɑbələn
Verb
knabbelen
- (intransitive) to nibble
- De eekhoorn knabbelde op een nootje.
- The squirrel was nibbling on a nut.
Inflection
Derived terms
- knabbelaar
References
- Pokorny, Julius (1959) chapter 1022, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 1022
- van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute
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