gaapsen
Luxembourgish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]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
[edit]Verb
[edit]gaapsen (third-person singular present gaapst, past participle gegaapst, auxiliary verb hunn)
- to yawn