keren
Middle Dutch
verb
Definitions
- (ambitransitive) to turn, to turn over, to turn around
- (transitive) to turn, to change
- (transitive) to translate
- (transitive) to spend of money
- (transitive) to return, to reimburse
- (intransitive) to go
- (intransitive) to return, to come back
Etymology
Inherited from Old Dutch kēren inherited from Proto-Germanic *karzijaną (turn, sweep).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*karzijaną
Gloss
turn, sweep
Concept
Semantic Field
Motion
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Emoji
🙃
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- bekeren Dutch, Flemish
- keerkring Dutch, Flemish
- keerpunt Dutch, Flemish
- keerzang Dutch, Flemish
- keren Dutch, Flemish
- kering Dutch, Flemish
- omkeren Dutch, Flemish
- terugkeren Dutch, Flemish
- toekeren Dutch, Flemish
- uitkeren Dutch, Flemish
- verkeren Dutch, Flemish
- wederkerig Dutch, Flemish
- *gers- Proto-Indo-European
- *karzijaną Proto-Germanic
- cierran Old English
- ċerr Old English
- ċierr Old English
- kerian Old High German
- kēren Old Dutch