to ruminate, chew the cud · to recapitulate in a boring way, to repeat old ideas and slogans, to study something without original thinking; to regurgitate
çekim: geçmiş käute wieder · ortaç wiedergekäut · şimdiki käut wieder · ulaç wiederkäuend
köken: 15th century, from wieder- (“re-, again”) + käuen (“chew”), the latter is an otherwise obsolete variant of kauen (see there).
chewing the cud, rumination · remnants of animal fodder
köken: A native formation, whose constituents ultimately go back to Proto-Iranian *niš- (“down, away”) and *hwar- (“to eat, consume”). Cognate with Pashto شخوند (šxwand, “chewing, rumination; cud”), Waziri [script needed] (xšan, “piece of bread”), [script needed] (xšān, “chewing the cud”). Akin to Old Armenian նշխար (nšxar, “remnants of food”), Aghwan 𐕎𐔼𐕐𐔴𐕍𐔰𐕜 (nišeq̇aṭ, “dinner”), Iranian borrowings.