pissen

Dutch

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpɪ.sə(n)/
  • (file)
  • Hyphenation: pis‧sen
  • Rhymes: -ɪsən

Verb

pissen

  1. (colloquial) to piss
    Synonyms: piesen, plassen, zeiken

Inflection

Conjugation of pissen (weak)
infinitive pissen
past singular piste
past participle gepist
infinitive pissen
gerund pissen n
present tense past tense
1st person singular pispiste
2nd person sing. (jij) pistpiste
2nd person sing. (u) pistpiste
2nd person sing. (gij) pistpiste
3rd person singular pistpiste
plural pissenpisten
subjunctive sing.1 pissepiste
subjunctive plur.1 pissenpisten
imperative sing. pis
imperative plur.1 pist
participles pissendgepist
1) Archaic.

Derived terms

Descendants

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

German

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

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

Verb

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)

Conjugation

Synonyms

Further reading

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

Middle Dutch

Etymology

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

Verb

pissen

  1. to piss

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

Further reading

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

Middle English

Alternative forms

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpisən/, /ˈpiʃən/

Verb

pissen (vulgar)

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

Conjugation

Descendants

References

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