From en.wiktionary.org:
[Tasten]
** Catalan
*** Verb
[ca]
1. [tastar]
** Dutch
*** Etymology
From [nl], from [nl], from [nl].
*** Pronunciation
- [nl]
- [nl]
- [nl]
- [nl]
*** Verb
[nl-verb]
1. [nl] to feel with the hands, to grope
**** Conjugation
[tast]
**** Derived terms
{{col|nl |tastbaar |aantasten |aftasten |betasten |in het duister tasten
|tastzin }}
*** Anagrams
- [nl]
** German
*** Etymology
From northern [de] and [de], from [de], from [de], from [de], from [la], from
[de]. Cognate with [nl], [fr], [en].
*** Pronunciation
- [de]
- [de]
- [de]
*** Verb
[de-verb]
1. to feel with the hands, to fumble , to grope
**** Conjugation
[de-conj]
**** Derived terms
{{col3|de |abtasten |antasten |betasten |Taster |Tastsinn }}
**** Related terms
- [de]
- [de]
*** Further reading
- [R:de:DWDS]
- [R:de:UniLeipzig]
- [R:de:Duden]
- [R:de:OpenThesaurus]
** Middle English
*** Etymology
From [enm], from [enm], from [enm].
*** Verb
[enm]
1. To taste
2. * {{ quote-text | enm | year=c. 1393 | author=John Gower | title=Confessio Amantis | section=4.2546-7
|passage=Wherof a man mai hiere and se<br>And smelle and TASTE in his degre}}
1. (_with of_ ) To partake in or ingest
2. * {{ quote-text | enm | year=1987 | author=Rolf Hendrik Bremmer | title=The Fyve Wyttes: A late Middle English Devotional Treatise Edited form BL MS Harley 2398 | section=pg 27, l 7-8
|passage=whenne Adam TASTEDE OF pe appui he wiste neuer whefrer it was sowr or
swete, ne for pe swetnesse fcerof was he nou3t repreued, bot for forfete азепз
Godes [lawe].}}
1. To examine by touch ; grope; palpate
2. * C. 15TH C ,, The Romance of Merlin, folio la, ch XXXIII, pg 681.
3. *: [enm]
4. To experience , feel (with sexual connotation)
5. * {{ quote-text | enm | year=c. 1393 | author=John Gower | title=Confessio Amantis | section=5.6692-5
|passage=Mi fader, nay; bot I have TASTED<br>In many a place as I have
go,<br>And yit love I nevere on of tho,<br>Bot forto drive forth the dai.}}
1. To try , test , tempt
**** Descendants
- [en]
** Norwegian Bokmål
*** Noun
[nb]
1. [nb]
** Norwegian Nynorsk
*** Noun
[nn]
1. [nn]