weichen

• IPA^(key): /ˈvaɪ̯çn̩/, /ˈvaɪ̯çən/

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From Middle High German wīchen, from Old High German wīchan, from Proto-West Germanic *wīkwan, from Proto-Germanic *wīkwaną, from Proto-Indo-European *weyk- (“to bend, curve; to divide”).

weichen (class 1 strong, third-person singular present weicht, past tense wich, past participle gewichen, auxiliary sein)

1. (intransitive) to move farther away, to make room, to yield [+dative] or [+ vor (object)]
2. (intransitive, formal) to wane, to decrease

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• Weichen
• abweichen
• entweichen
• zurückweichen

Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), from Old High German weihhen, from Proto-West Germanic *waikwijan. Related to the adjective weich.

weichen (weak, third-person singular present weicht, past tense weichte, past participle geweicht, auxiliary haben or sein)

1. (transitive) to soften, to make more flexible or yielding [auxiliary haben]
2. (intransitive) to soften [auxiliary sein]

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• aufweichen
• einweichen
• erweichen

weichen

1. inflection of weich:
   1. strong genitive masculine/neuter singular
   2. weak/mixed genitive/dative all-gender singular
   3. strong/weak/mixed accusative masculine singular
   4. strong dative plural
   5. weak/mixed all-case plural

• “weichen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “weichen” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “weichen” in Duden online
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