mithören

(mit verb)

based on: hören

hat mitgehört

hörte mit

Meanings

to join listening

(If someone listens to a podcast, for example, and you join them listening.)

to listen in, to overhear

(Hearing something that is not necessarily meant for you. Like the FBI listening to our "conversation" about ... erm... the weeds in the yard. The thing you listen to would be the direct object, not the people saying it.)

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Root: *keu

The core idea of this root was:

observing, watching, perceiving

It’s the origin of hören and to hear (which is acoustically perceiving, observing) and also of German schauen, which is about looking at.
The English brother of schauen, to show, shifted from mere seeing toward showing – first, showing what you’re seeing and then showing in the more general sense.

It’s also the origin of German schön, which was originally “something you like to watch” and of the English caution which comes from Latin and was about watching in a sense of being on guard.

Some English relatives:

to show (showing what you see)
to hear (perceiving acoustically)
caution (observing danger)
sheen (similar to German schön)

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