lauschen

== German == === Etymology === From Middle High German lūschen, akin to Middle Low German lûschen, ultimately related to Proto-West Germanic *hlūd (“loud”), compare English listen. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈlaʊ̯ʃn̩/, /ˈlaʊ̯ʃən/ Hyphenation: lau‧schen === Verb === lauschen (weak, third-person singular present lauscht, past tense lauschte, past participle gelauscht, auxiliary haben) (intransitive) to listen (to wait for a sound) (intransitive) to eavesdrop 1924, Friedrich Bernhard Störzner, Das weiße Männchen auf dem Kirchberge, in: Reinhardtswalder Sagenbüchlein, Buchhandlung Otto Schmidt, page 11: (transitive) to listen [with dative ‘to someone/something’] ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Derived terms ==== Lauschen, Lauscher lauschend ==== Related terms ==== Lauschohr Lauschrohr Lauschangriff Lauschapparat Lauschvorrichtung === Further reading === “lauschen”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎[1] (in German) “lauschen” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon “lauschen” in Duden online “lauschen” in OpenThesaurus.de