gaffen

== German == === Etymology === From Middle High German gaffen (“to gape; to stare”), from Old High German *gaffōn, from Proto-Germanic *gapōną (“to gaze, observe”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰeh₁y- (“to gape, be wide open”); influenced by and partly merged with Middle High German kaffen, a variant of kapfen (“to look, look surprised, gawk, wonder”), from Old High German kapfēn (“to look, stare, gawk, gape”), from Proto-West Germanic *kapēn. Doublet of jappen (which is from Low German), and cognate with Dutch gapen, English gape. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈɡafɱ̩/, /ˈɡafən/ Rhymes: -afn̩ === Verb === gaffen (weak, third-person singular present gafft, past tense gaffte, past participle gegafft, auxiliary haben) to stare at curiously, rubberneck ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Derived terms ==== Gaffer Gegaffe angaffen begaffen vergaffen === References === === Further reading === “gaffen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache “gaffen” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon “gaffen” in Duden online “gaffen” in OpenThesaurus.de