verzälle

• verzähle, verzeahle (Moselle Franconian)

From Middle High German verzelen. By surface analysis, ver- +‎ zälle (“count”). Cognate with Dutch vertellen. Compare also German erzählen.

• IPA^(key): /fʌˈtsɛlə/

verzälle (third-person singular present verzällt, preterite verzallt, past participle verzallt)

1. (Ripuarian) to tell
   • 1981, “Jupp”‎^[1]performed by BAP:

     Jupp verzällt vum Joldrausch / Un wie hä Twist jedanz hät met ner Kobra / [...] / Nur vun Stalingrad verzällt hä nie / Wo litt dat, Stalingrad? En welchem Land es dat? / Stalingrad pack hä nie, irjendwie

     Jupp tells about the gold rush / And how he danced twist with a cobra / [...] / Just about Stalingrad he never tells / Where’s Stalingrad? In what country anyway? / With Stalingrad he’ll never cope, somehow

2. (Ripuarian) to talk, chat, to speak with each other
   • 1974, “Dat häste wirklich nit verdeent”‎^[2]performed by Bläck Fööss:

     Hück süht mer dich verdräump allein spaziere jonn / Su mancher dann janz flüchtig dich bejröß / Et kütt kaum vür, datt Lück met dir verzälle / Doch dat nemms de hück schon keinem Minsch mieh kromm

     Today you can be seen taking walks alone and daydreaming / Some or other pedestrian may then greet you in passing / It hardly happens that people chat with you / But you don’t even take offence at anybody anymore