biichten

Luxembourgish

Etymology

From Buucht (“withstanding, resistance”, originally “body tension, body posture”), referring here to the tense posture during the aiming. This word Buucht is probably identical with German Bucht (borrowed), Dutch bocht, English bight, from Proto-Germanic *buhtiz, here meaning “posture, position” in terms of a bending of the body, a sense which is also attested in Dutch. The fact that *buhtiz is otherwise not native in High German does not necessarily refute this etymology since Luxembourg and the western Rhineland are a Frankish relict zone.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbiːχten/, [ˈbiːɕtən]
• Rhymes: -iːɕtən

Verb

biichten (third-person singular present biicht, past participle gebiicht, auxiliary verb hunn)

1. (intransitive) to aim (with a gun)
2. (intransitive, with no) to seek, to desire

Conjugation

Regular

infinitive	biichten
participle	gebiicht
auxiliary	hunn
	present indicative	imperative
1st singular	biichten	—
2nd singular	biichts	biicht
3rd singular	biicht	—
1st plural	biichten	—
2nd plural	biicht	biicht
3rd plural	biichten	—

(n) or (nn) indicates the Eifeler Regel.