willfahren

German

Etymology

From Middle High German willenvarn, a univerbation of sīns willen vāren (to act according to someone's wishes), with vāren = to strive; the second part is not identical with German fahren.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /vɪlˈfaːʁən/
  • Hyphenation: will‧fah‧ren
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Verb

willfahren (weak, third-person singular present willfahrt, past tense willfahrte, past participle willfahrt or gewillfahrt, auxiliary haben)

  1. (dated, formal) to obey

Conjugation

Derived terms

References

  1. Friedrich Kluge (1995) “willfahren”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 23rd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 891

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