lügen.
to tell a lie; to lie (to intentionally give false information)
Meaning & usage
to tell a lie; to lie (to intentionally give false information)
to give false information (unintentionally)
Wie alt sind Sie? — Ehm... lassen Sie mich nicht lügen... Zweiunddreißig.
Where this word comes from
From Middle High German liegen, from Old High German liogan, from Proto-West Germanic *leugan, from Proto-Germanic *leuganą, from Proto-Indo-European *lewgʰ-. Cognate with Bavarian liagn, Dutch liegen, Low German liegen, legen, lögen, English lie, Danish lyve, Swedish ljuga. The expected form is Early Modern German liegen; that with -ü- has been standardized to avoid homophony with unrelated liegen (“to lie, be in a horizontal position”). The vowel was transferred from the noun Lüge, where it is original, facilitated by a phonetic merger of these vowels in some dialects. A reinforcing influence may have been the inherited 2nd and 3rd person-singular forms (from Middle High German liugest, liuget), which had /yː/ in non-diphthongising dialects (such as Alemannic German).
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