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Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dhwel-der. Proto-Germanic *dwalaz Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Germanic *-janą Proto-Germanic *dwaljaną Proto-West Germanic *dwalljan Old English dwellan ▲ Old Norse dveljainflu. Middle English dwellen English dwell From Middle English dwellen (“delay, live, remain, persist”), from Old English dwellan (“to mislead, deceive; be led into error, stray”), from Proto-Germanic *dwaljaną (“to hold up, delay; hesitate”), from Proto-Indo-European *dhwelH- (“to whirl, swirl, blur, obfuscate”), which is cognate with Old Norse dvelja and related to Proto-Germanic *dwelaną (“to go astray”), which underwent semantic change in its descendants. Cognates include Danish dvæle (“to linger, dwell”) and Swedish dväljas (“to dwell, reside”).

124 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: banoj — live, reside
• Arabic: سَكَنَ (sakana) — live, reside
• Arabic: أَقَامَ (ʔaqāma) — live, reside
• Arabic: قَطَنَ (qaṭana) — live, reside
• Arabic: سْكن (skən) — live, reside
• Aragonese: habitar — live, reside
• Armenian: բնակել (bnakel) — live, reside
• Basque: bizi izan — live, reside
• Belarusian: пражыва́ць (pražyvácʹ) — live, reside
• Belarusian: жыць (žycʹ) — live, reside
• Bulgarian: живе́я (živéja) — live, reside
• Bulgarian: обита́вам (obitávam) — live, reside
• Cherokee: ᎡᎯ (ehi) — live, reside
• Chinese Mandarin: 居住 (jūzhù) — live, reside
• Chinese Mandarin: 住 (zhù) — live, reside
• Chinese Mandarin: 居留 (jūliú) — live, reside
• Czech: bydlet — live, reside
• Danish: leve — live, reside
• Danish: forblive — live, reside
• Danish: bebo — live, reside
• Danish: bo — live, reside
• Dutch: rondhangen — live, reside
• Dutch: verblijven — live, reside
• Esperanto: loĝi — live, reside
• Finnish: asua — live, reside
• Finnish: oleskella — live, reside
• Finnish: asustaa — live, reside
• French: résider — live, reside
• Galician: residir — live, reside
• Galician: morar — live, reside
• Galician: habitar — live, reside
• Galician: vivir — live, reside
• German: leben — live, reside
• German: verbleiben — live, reside
• German: wohnen — live, reside
• Gothic: 𐌱𐌰𐌿𐌰𐌽 (bauan) — live, reside
• Ancient Greek: οἰκέω (oikéō) — live, reside
• Ancient Greek: ναίω (naíō) — live, reside
• Hungarian: lakik — live, reside
• Indonesian: tinggal — live, reside
• Indonesian: berdiam — live, reside
• Indonesian: mendiami — live, reside
• Ingrian: ellää — live, reside
• Ingrian: elustaa — live, reside
• Ingrian: assua — live, reside
• Irish: cónaigh — live, reside
• Irish: bheith i do chónaí — live, reside
• Japanese: 住む (sumu) — live, reside
• Japanese: 居住する (kyojū suru) — live, reside
• Judeo-Italian: אַלְבֵירְגַארֵי — live, reside
• Khmer: នៅ (nɨw) — live, reside
• Khmer: រស់នៅ (rŭəh nɨw) — live, reside
• Korean: 살다 (salda) — live, reside
• Korean: 거주하다 (geojuhada) — live, reside
• Lao: ສະຖິຕ (sa thit) — live, reside
• Latin: incolō — live, reside
• Latin: habitō — live, reside
• Latvian: mist — live, reside
• Latvian: dzīvot — live, reside
• Māori: noho — live, reside
• Middle English: lenden — live, reside
• Middle English: dwellen — live, reside
• Mongolian: суух (suux) — live, reside
• Old Church Slavonic: витати (vitati) — live, reside
• Old English: būan — live, reside
• Polish: mieszkać — live, reside
• Polish: zamieszkiwać — live, reside
• Portuguese: habitar — live, reside
• Portuguese: morar — live, reside
• Portuguese: viver — live, reside
• Romani: beśel — live, reside
• Romanian: trăi — live, reside
• Romanian: locui — live, reside
• Russian: прожива́ть (proživátʹ) — live, reside
• Russian: жить (žitʹ) — live, reside
• Russian: обита́ть (obitátʹ) — live, reside
• Sanskrit: क्षेति (kṣeti) — live, reside
• Sanskrit: वसति (vasati) — live, reside
• Scottish Gaelic: còmhnaich — live, reside
• Serbo-Croatian: boraviti — live, reside
• Slovene: bivati — live, reside
• Spanish: habitar — live, reside
• Spanish: morar — live, reside
• Swedish: bo — live, reside
• Swedish: leva — live, reside
• Swedish: dväljas — live, reside
• Tausug: hula — live, reside
• Telugu: నివసించు (nivasiñcu) — live, reside
• Thai: อาศัยอยู่ (aa-sǎi-yùu) — live, reside
• Thai: อยู่ (yùu) — live, reside
• Tocharian B: walāk- — live, reside
• Turkish: oturmak — live, reside
• Turkish: ikamet etmek — live, reside
• Turkish: eğleşmek — live, reside
• Turkish: kalmak — live, reside
• Ottoman Turkish: اوتورمق (oturmak) — live, reside
• Ukrainian: ме́шкати (méškaty) — live, reside
• Ukrainian: жи́ти (žýty) — live, reside
• Ukrainian: прожива́ти (prožyváty) — live, reside
• Unami: wiki — live, reside
• Vietnamese: ở — live, reside
• Walloon: dimorer — live, reside
• Walloon: dimani — live, reside
• Walloon: lodjî — live, reside
• Yiddish: וווינען (voynen) — live, reside
• Bulgarian: спирам се на (spiram se na) — to continue to think or talk about (something or someone)
• Catalan: capficar-se — to continue to think or talk about (something or someone)
• Czech: rozebírat — to continue to think or talk about (something or someone)
• Czech: probírat — to continue to think or talk about (something or someone)
• Danish: dvæle — to continue to think or talk about (something or someone)
• Finnish: vatvoa — to continue to think or talk about (something or someone)
• Finnish: kelata — to continue to think or talk about (something or someone)
• Finnish: pyöritellä — to continue to think or talk about (something or someone)
• German: verweilen — to continue to think or talk about (something or someone)
• Greek: τρώω κόλλημα (tróo kóllima) — to continue to think or talk about (something or someone)
• Greek: αναλογίζομαι (analogízomai) — to continue to think or talk about (something or someone)
• Latvian: gremdēties — to continue to think or talk about (something or someone)
• Māori: rauroha — to continue to think or talk about (something or someone)
• Portuguese: remoer — to continue to think or talk about (something or someone)
• Romanian: sta cu gândul — to continue to think or talk about (something or someone)
• Spanish: rumiar — to continue to think or talk about (something or someone)
• Spanish: darle vueltas a — to continue to think or talk about (something or someone)
• Spanish: ponderar — to continue to think or talk about (something or someone)
• Swedish: älta — to continue to think or talk about (something or someone)