lügen

Etymology
From, from , from , from , from. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬,, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

The expected form is Early Modern German ; that with -ü- has been standardized to avoid homophony with unrelated. The vowel was transferred from the noun, where it is original, facilitated by a phonetic merger of these vowels in some dialects. A reinforcing influence may have been the inherited 2nd and 3rd person-singular forms (from, ), which had in non-diphthongising dialects (such as 🇨🇬).

Verb

 * 1)  to tell a lie; to lie to intentionally give false information
 * 2)  to give false information (unintentionally)