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Schaukel.

swing (seat hanging on two lines)

8 characters2 syllables approx.Deutsch language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈʃaʊ̯kəl/[ˈʃaʊ̯kl̩]
  1. swing (seat hanging on two lines)

    feminine
  2. any swinging construction, including seesaws and similar devices

    broadly · feminine
Where this word comes from

With -au- by artificial adaptation to standard German from Low German Schukel, a lengthened variant of Low German Schuckel (also early modern German Schuckel), deverbal from schuckeln, schockeln, iterative of Middle Low German and Middle High German schocken, from Proto-West Germanic *skokkōn. Related with English shock.

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