gaffen

From Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), from Old High German *gaffōn, from Proto-Germanic *gapōną (“to gaze, observe”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰeh₁y- (“to gape, be wide open”)[1]; influenced by and partly merged with Middle High German kaffen, a variant of kapfen (“to look, look surprised, gawk, wonder”), from Old High German kapfēn (“to look, stare, gawk, gape”), from Proto-West Germanic *kapēn. Doublet of jappen (which is from Low German), and cognate with Dutch gapen, English gape.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡafɱ̩/, /ˈɡafən/

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• Rhymes: -afn̩

gaffen (weak, third-person singular present gafft, past tense gaffte, past participle gegafft, auxiliary haben)

1. to stare at curiously, rubberneck

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• Gaffer
• Gegaffe
• angaffen
• begaffen
• vergaffen

• “gaffen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “gaffen” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “gaffen” in Duden online
• “gaffen” in OpenThesaurus.de