wehen

From Middle High German wæjen, from Old High German wāen, from Proto-West Germanic *wāan, from Proto-Germanic *wēaną. Cognate with Dutch waaien, Old English wāwan.

• IPA^(key): /ˈveːən/

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• Rhymes: -eːən

wehen (weak, third-person singular present weht, past tense wehte, past participle geweht, auxiliary haben)

1. (intransitive) to blow (of wind, a storm, etc.)

   Der Wind weht heute Morgen kalt und böig.

   The wind is blowing cold and gusty this morning.

2. (intransitive) to flutter, wave (in the wind); to fly {{gloss|of a flag}

   Die Nationalflagge wehte über der Einweihung des Präsidenten.

   The national flag flew over the President's inauguration.

• Wehen

• “wehen” in Duden online
• “wehen”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎^[1] (in German)
• “wehen” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “wehen” in OpenThesaurus.de
• Friedrich Kluge (1883), “wehen”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891