fesseln

See also: Fesseln

German

Etymology

From Middle High German veʒʒeren, from Old High German feʒʒarōn.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈfɛsl̩n], [ˈfɛsəln]
  • (file)
  • Hyphenation: fes‧seln

Verb

fesseln (weak, third-person singular present fesselt, past tense fesselte, past participle gefesselt, auxiliary haben)

  1. to chain, to bind
  2. to rivet (someone's attention), to captivate

Conjugation

Derived terms

References

  1. Wolfgang Pfeifer, editor (1993), fesseln”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Deutschen (in German), 2nd edition, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN

Further reading

  • fesseln” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • fesseln” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
  • fesseln” in Duden online
  • fesseln” in OpenThesaurus.de
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