spechteln

== German == === Etymology === From Bavarian spechtln, from Middle High German spēhen (“to watch, peer, peek”), from Old High German spehōn, spiohōn, from Proto-West Germanic *spehōn, from Proto-Germanic *spehōną (“to see, look”), from Proto-Indo-European *speḱ- (“to look”). Doublet of spähen. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈʃpɛçtl̩n/, [ˈʃb̥e̞çd̥l̩n] Hyphenation: spech‧teln === Verb === spechteln (weak, third-person singular present spechtelt, past tense spechtelte, past participle gespechtelt, auxiliary haben) (Austria, Vienna, colloquial) to spy, to watch, to view (Austria, Vienna, colloquial) to peep, to act as a voyeur ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Related terms ==== Spechtler === Further reading === “spechteln” in Duden online