spähen
German
Etymology
From Middle High German spehen, from Old High German spehōn, spiohōn,[1] from Proto-Germanic *spehōną (“to see, look”), from Proto-Indo-European *speḱ- (“to look”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈʃpɛː.ən/ (standard; used naturally in western Germany and Switzerland)
- IPA(key): /ˈʃpeː.ən/ (overall more common; particularly northern and eastern regions)
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: spä‧hen
Verb
spähen (weak, third-person singular present späht, past tense spähte, past participle gespäht, auxiliary haben)
Conjugation
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Derived terms
- ausspähen
- bespähen
- erspähen
- heimlich spähen
- jemanden erspähen
- Spähen
Related terms
References
- Friedrich Kluge (1989), “spähen”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN
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