zwingen

Etymology
From, from , from , related to.

Cognates include 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. What may be perceived as a repetition of the consonant shift (from Germanic *þ → Old High German d → Middle High German t → modern German z) is a regular development that affected most words with Old High German dw- and tw- (compare, but see also for a counterexample). Compare 🇨🇬.

Verb

 * 1)  to force; to compel; to make (someone do something)
 * 2) * 1908, Walther Kabel, Das Tagebuch eines Irren, in: Bibliothek der Unterhaltung und des Wissens, vol. 9, Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, p. 132:
 * "de"
 * "de"

- Nur mit Aufbietung seiner ganzen Energie zwang er sich zur Ruhe.


 * 1)  to necessitate; to call for