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/
  • (file)

Verb

spähen (third-person singular simple present späht, past tense spähte, past participle gespäht, auxiliary haben)

  1. to peer, peek
  2. to spy

Conjugation

References

  1. Kluge, Friedrich (1989), “spähen”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological dictionary of the German language] (in German), 22nd edition, →ISBN

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