hecheln

Etymology 1
An word liable to alteration and variation. Formally iterative of obsolete, , a chiefly Central and Low German word; compare , , , from or related with (whence 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬). Another obsolete variant 🇨🇬 is derived from or reinterpreted as the interjection + the old suffix. Further compare.

, is attested in the sense “to copulate”, which might be derived from underlying “to pant”, though this is rather unlikely. The sense exists also in the above-mentioned 🇨🇬 and in this language it is probably due to influence by (“to marry, to copulate”, later “to rape”; see 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬). Probably, however, Middle High German is the same verb as that in etymology 2 below, through a cross-linguistic tendency of using verbs denoting ungentle treatments in a sexual sense (and vice versa).

Verb

 * 1) to pant or breathe fast and loudly through one’s mouth (much like dogs do when hot or short of breath)

Etymology 2
From, , derived from , , whence 🇨🇬, of origin and related to the root of. For the sexual sense compare etymology 1 above.

Verb

 * 1) to hackle
 * 2)  to heckle; to slag off
 * 3)  to hit; to beat
 * 4)  to copulate with; to fuck