An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Annotated/zappeln

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An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, Z
by Friedrich Kluge, translated by John Francis Davis

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2556108An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, Z — zappelnJohn Francis DavisFriedrich Kluge

zappeln, verb, ‘to move convulsively, sprawl, flounder,’ from the equivalent Middle High German zappeln. a variant of zabeln, Old High German zabalôn (zappalôn?), ‘to sprawl.’ A specifically High German, probably of recent onomatopoetic origin.