lugen
Dupaningan Agta
German
Etymology
From Middle High German luogen, from Old High German luogēn, from Proto-West Germanic *lōgēn (“to look, see”). Compare Alemannic German luege.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈluːɡn̩]
- Hyphenation: lu‧gen
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Verb
lugen (weak, third-person singular present lugt, past tense lugte, past participle gelugt, auxiliary haben)
- (dated) to look
- 1827, Heinrich Heine, “Die Heimkehr 1823–1824”, in Buch der Lieder [Book of Songs], Hamburg: Hoffmann und Campe:
- Die Nacht war lang, die Nacht war kalt, / Es waren so kalt die Steine; / Es lugt aus dem Fenster die blasse Gestalt, / Beleuchtet vom Mondenscheine.
- The night was long, the night was cold, / The stones were so cold, / The pale figure looks out from the window, / Lit by moonshine.
Conjugation
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Derived terms
- anlugen
- auslugen
- nachlugen
- zulugen
Further reading
- “lugen” in Duden online
- “lugen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “lugen” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.
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