rütteln

From Middle High German rütteln, rütelen, rüteln, from rütten (“to shake”) +‎ -eln (“frequentative suffix”), from Proto-Indo-European *kreu- (“to shake, wave around”), related to Tocharian A kru (“reed”), Tocharian B kärwats, Lithuanian krutéti (“to move”).^[1] Cognate with the first part of Old English hrēaþemūs (“bat”).^[2]

• IPA^(key): /ˈʁʏtəln/, [ˈʁʏtl̩n]

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• Hyphenation: rüt‧teln

rütteln (weak, third-person singular present rüttelt, past tense rüttelte, past participle gerüttelt, auxiliary haben)

1. (transitive) to shake, to jolt

   Synonym: schütteln

   jemanden an der Schulter rütteln ― to shake someone by the shoulder

2. (intransitive) to shake, to rattle (to make a barrier or obstacle shake, attempting to open or displace it) [with an (+ dative)]

   Er rüttelte an der Tür, aber sie war verschlossen. ― He rattled the door, but it was locked.

   1. (figuratively) to attempt to do away with, to rebel against (an established standard, rule, idea)

      an etwas ist nicht zu rütteln ― something is undeniable, something cannot be changed

3. (intransitive, falconry, ornithology, of birds of prey) to hover (to float in the air by fast wingbeats)

• Rüttler
• Rüttelei

• Rütteln
• rüttelnd
• Rüttelfalke
• aufrütteln, durchrütteln, wachrütteln

• zerrütten

• wackeln
• schütteln
• schaukeln

• “rütteln” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “rütteln” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “rütteln” in Duden online
• “rütteln” in OpenThesaurus.de
• rütteln on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de