Denominal from Gaaps (“yawning mouth; way or instance of yawning”), itself deverbal from earlier Luxembourgish *gapen, from Middle High German *gappen (compare German jappen, japsen, dialectal German and Low German gappen), intensified form of Proto-Germanic *gapōną, whence Luxembourgish gafen, German gaffen, Dutch gapen, English gape.
gaapsen (third-person singular present gaapst, past participle gegaapst, auxiliary verb hunn)
| Regular | ||
|---|---|---|
| infinitive | gaapsen | |
| participle | gegaapst | |
| auxiliary | hunn | |
| present indicative |
imperative | |
| 1st singular | gaapsen | — |
| 2nd singular | gaaps | gaaps |
| 3rd singular | gaapst | — |
| 1st plural | gaapsen | — |
| 2nd plural | gaapst | gaapst |
| 3rd plural | gaapsen | — |
| (n) or (nn) indicates the Eifeler Regel. | ||