gaapsen

Luxembourgish

Etymology

Denominal from Gaaps (“yawning mouth; way or instance of yawning”), itself deverbal from earlier Luxembourgish *gapen, from Middle High German *gappen (compare German jappen, japsen, dialectal German and Low German gappen), intensified form of Proto-Germanic *gapōną, whence Luxembourgish gafen, German gaffen, Dutch gapen, English gape.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈɡaːpsen/, [ˈɡaːpsən]

Verb

gaapsen (third-person singular present gaapst, past participle gegaapst, auxiliary verb hunn)

  1. to yawn

Conjugation
Regular
infinitive gaapsen
participle gegaapst
auxiliary hunn
present
indicative		 imperative
1st singular gaapsen —
2nd singular gaaps gaaps
3rd singular gaapst —
1st plural gaapsen —
2nd plural gaapst gaapst
3rd plural gaapsen —
(n) or (nn) indicates the Eifeler Regel.
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