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weichen

Pronunciation: /ˈvaɪ̯çn̩/

“weichen” is a German word. Its 5 meanings in English:

verb

  1. to move farther away, to make room, to yield
  2. to be replaced, to disappear [with dative ‘in favor of something’] (especially of buildings/shops and sentiments)
  3. to wane, to decrease
  4. to soften, to make more flexible or yielding
  5. to soften

Etymology

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”).

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