köken: Borrowed from Old Occitan badau, from badar, from Medieval Latin badare (“to gape, yawn”), probably ultimately imitative of yawning or gaping. Related to English abash.
From Middle High German gaffen (“to gape; to stare”), from Old High German *gaffōn, from Proto-Germanic *gapōną (“to gaze, observe”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰeh₁y- (“to gape, be wide open”); influenced by and partly merged with Middle High German kaffen, a variant of kapfen (“to look, look surprised, gawk, wonder”), from Old High German kapfēn (“to look, stare, gawk, gape”), from Proto-West…