pissen

From Middle Dutch pissen. By surface analysis, pis +‎ -en.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɪ.sə(n)/

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• Hyphenation: pis‧sen
• Rhymes: -ɪsən

pissen

1. (colloquial) to piss

   Synonyms: piesen, plassen, zeiken

• buiten de pot pissen
• wegpissen

• pis

• Afrikaans: pis
• Berbice Creole Dutch: pesi
• Negerhollands: pische

From northern Middle High German pissen and Middle Low German pissen. Perhaps borrowed through Middle Dutch pissen from Old French pissier, from Vulgar Latin *pīssiāre, probably of echoic origin, though the Germanic words are also sometimes considered independent onomatopoeias.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɪsən/, [ˈpɪsn̩]
• Hyphenation: pis‧sen

• Audio:

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pissen (weak, third-person singular present pisst, past tense pisste, past participle gepisst, auxiliary haben) (colloquial, slightly vulgar)

1. to piss (urinate)
2. to piss down (rain heavily)

• pieseln
• pinkeln
• strullern
• urinieren
• Wasser lassen
• mikturieren
• klein machen

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

Probably borrowed from Old French pissier (“to piss”), similar to Middle Low German pissen, Swedish pissa.

pissen

1. to piss

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

• Dutch: pissen

• “pissen”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “pissen”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN

• pisse, pyssyn, pysse, pyschyn

Borrowed from Old French pissier, from Vulgar Latin *pīssiāre; equivalent to pisse +‎ -en (infinitival suffix).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpisən/, /ˈpiʃən/

pissen (vulgar)

1. To piss; to deliver urine from the genitals.
2. To eject any other substance through the genitals.

• English: piss
• Scots: pish

• “pissen, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 17 August 2018.