knäipen
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Luxembourgish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]The same word as northern Moselle Franconian kneipe, Ripuarian kniepe (“to blink”), from the constant glances to the side. Ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *knīpan, probably through Middle Dutch knîpen. Cognate with Dutch knijpen, German kneifen and kniepen.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]knäipen (third-person singular present knäipt, past participle geknäipt, auxiliary verb hunn)
- to copy (from another pupil during a school test)