spähen

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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)

  1. to peer, peek
  2. to spy

Conjugation

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ 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

Further reading

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