An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Annotated/kritteln
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kritteln, verb, ‘to find fault, carp,’ Modern High German simply from a popular term, gritteln, ‘to wrangle’ (wanting in Middle High German and Old High German), with an allusion to Kritik, &c.