stiichten

Fron Middle High German stihten, northwestern byform of stiften, whence the doublet stëften. Cognate with German stiften, Dutch stichten. The development ft > cht is native, but survives only in a number of relict words, cf. Griecht, Luucht, uechter.

• IPA^(key): [ˈʃtiːɕtən]

stiichten (third-person singular present stiicht, past participle gestiicht, auxiliary verb hunn)

1. to get up to, pull off, commit (a mischievous act)

• Mostly used with pronominal objects such as wat, dat, vill, eppes, näischt. For the latter two there is also an idiomatic construction with eng and keng: Hien huet nees eng gestiicht. (“He's got up to something again.”)