zwingle
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Alemannic German
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Related to German zwingen (“to force”)
Verb
[edit]zwingle
- (Uri, transitive) To force a child to stop crying.
References
[edit]- Abegg, Emil, (1911) Die Mundart von Urseren (Beiträge zur Schweizerdeutschen Grammatik. IV.) [The Dialect of Urseren], Frauenfeld, Switzerland: Huber & Co., page 61.