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
Verb
biichten (third-person singular present biicht, past participle gebiicht, auxiliary verb hunn)
- (intransitive) to aim (with a gun)
- (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. | ||