rumsen
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[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]rums + -en, the first element being an onomatopoeia used to describe the impact of something dropping.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]rumsen (weak, third-person singular present rumst, past tense rumste, past participle gerumst, auxiliary haben or sein)
- to bang [with gegen (+ accusative) ‘against’]
- (obsolete, vulgar) to tussle or scuffle sportively, to do some fuckry with someone
- Synonyms: sich mutwillig balgen, scherzen, sich rammeln
- (obsolete, vulgar) to have one's wicked way with, to jape
- Synonyms: rummachen, bumsen, sich rammeln
- 1420±50, Adelbert Keller, Gesta Romanorum: das iſt: Der Rœmer tat., Quedlinburg und Leipzig: Gottfr. Basse, page 69:
- Man liſet daz ein leb vnd lebynn vnd eyn liebhart . ein Chůnig hiet erzogen. Vnd die tier hiet er gar liep vnd da der leb . ains tags nicht da waz . do liebet ſich die lebynne mit dem liebhart zů rumſchen. Vnd der leb icht enpfv̊nd den geſtanch an ir.
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Conjugation
[edit]infinitive | rumsen | ||||
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present participle | rumsend | ||||
past participle | gerumst | ||||
auxiliary | haben or sein | ||||
indicative | subjunctive | ||||
singular | plural | singular | plural | ||
present | ich rumse | wir rumsen | i | ich rumse | wir rumsen |
du rumst | ihr rumst | du rumsest | ihr rumset | ||
er rumst | sie rumsen | er rumse | sie rumsen | ||
preterite | ich rumste | wir rumsten | ii | ich rumste1 | wir rumsten1 |
du rumstest | ihr rumstet | du rumstest1 | ihr rumstet1 | ||
er rumste | sie rumsten | er rumste1 | sie rumsten1 | ||
imperative | rums (du) rumse (du) |
rumst (ihr) |
1Rare except in very formal contexts; alternative in würde normally preferred.
Further reading
[edit]- “rumsen” in Duden online
- “rumsen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “rumsen” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.
- Wood, Francis A. (1912) “Kontaminationsbildungen und haplologische Mischformen”, in The Journal of English and Germanic Philology[1] (in German), volume 11, number 3, pages 320–321, Nr. 192 and 195
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