An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/verdauen

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An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, V (1891)
by Friedrich Kluge, translated by John Francis Davis
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Friedrich Kluge2507749An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, V — verdauen1891John Francis Davis

​ verdauen, vb., ‘to digest,’ from the equiv. MidHG. verdöuwen (verdöun), verdouwen, with the simple forms döuwen, douwen, OHG. douwen (dęwen), firdouwen, ‘to digest’; comp. Du. verduwen. The assumed Teut. þaujan, ‘to digest,’ is probably connected with tauen (lit. ‘to dissolve’). —

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