crisscross

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• krĭsʹ-krŏs'
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From Middle English crist-crosse, crists-crosse (“Christ's cross”). By surface analysis, an apophonic reduplication of cross.

48 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Finnish: ruudukoitu — marked with crossed lines
• Finnish: ristitty — marked with crossed lines
• Finnish: ristiviivattu — marked with crossed lines
• Hungarian: cikcakkos — marked with crossed lines
• Hungarian: cikcakk alakú — marked with crossed lines
• Māori: rakapikipiki — marked with crossed lines
• Ottoman Turkish: سطرنجلو (satranclı) — marked with crossed lines
• Czech: křížem — crossing one another
• Finnish: ristiin rastiin — crossing one another
• Finnish: pitkin poikin — crossing one another
• Finnish: ristikkäin — crossing one another
• Finnish: ristissä — crossing one another
• Finnish: ympäri ämpäri — crossing one another
• German: kreuz und quer — crossing one another
• Hungarian: keresztbe-kasul — crossing one another
• Hungarian: ide-oda — crossing one another
• Hungarian: összevissza — crossing one another
• Hungarian: keresztbe — crossing one another
• Ingrian: ristii rastii — crossing one another
• Italian: incrociarsi — crossing one another
• Italian: intersecarsi — crossing one another
• Russian: крест-на́крест (krest-nákrest) — crossing one another
• Swedish: härs och tvärs — crossing one another
• Swedish: kors och tvärs — crossing one another
• Bulgarian: мрежа от пресечени линии — pattern of crossed lines
• Finnish: ristikko — pattern of crossed lines
• Finnish: ruudukko — pattern of crossed lines
• Hungarian: cikcakk — pattern of crossed lines
• Hungarian: cikcakkvonal — pattern of crossed lines
• Hungarian: keresztvonás — pattern of crossed lines
• Hungarian: kereszt — pattern of crossed lines
• Māori: rakapikipiki — pattern of crossed lines
• Bulgarian: кръстосвам (krǎstosvam) — move back and forth
• Finnish: liikkua ristiin rastiin — move back and forth
• Finnish: risteillä — move back and forth
• French: sillonner — move back and forth
• Hungarian: cikázik — move back and forth
• Hungarian: cikcakkvonalban halad — move back and forth
• Hungarian: ide-oda jár — move back and forth
• Hungarian: keresztül-kasul bejár/beutaz — move back and forth
• Indonesian: serang-serong — move back and forth
• Latin: intercursō — move back and forth
• Māori: kōpiko — move back and forth
• Māori: whitiwhiti — move back and forth
• Finnish: ruuduttaa — mark with crossed lines
• Hungarian: keresztez — mark with crossed lines
• Hungarian: kereszttel/keresztekkel jelöl — mark with crossed lines
• Indonesian: menyilang — mark with crossed lines