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Inspired by this question, I wonder if there is also some German relative (dialect or general) of Dutch word "kijken" for to watch or look at something.
I think for example I saw or heard somewhere a comment about "kieken", is this used?
An example where kijken is used
Wil je met me voetbal kijken
which google translates to
Willst du mit mir Fußball gucken?
The German for kijken is
kucken
sometimes (especially in the South) also written like
gucken
Both is standard German, and you can find both forms registered in Der Duden (most authoritative reference dictionary for German).
Kieken, in contrast, is a Northern dialectal form of kucken, and of course it is so to say the bridge to kijken.
There are many common phrases with kucken, e.g.
Kuck mal an! / Kuck mal einer an! / Ja da guck an!
meaning something like: "*Oh, that's indeed surprising!" In Swabian dialect (in the South-West) this would be: Jo do guck naa!.
Da kuckst du, was?
"That's surprising for you, isn't it?"
Mal kucken...
meaning something like: "Okay, I don't know yet, but we will see what brings the future; or simply: "Let's see."
Was kuckst du?
a stereotypical bully phrase of oriental street gang members who want to intimidate somebody who dared to look at them. Pronunciation is then typically more like Wuss kuckstu!
Also a person can
dumm aus der Wäsche kucken
i.e. look stupid after taken by unpleasant surprise by something.
There is a related question on StackExchange Is there any differences between “Gucken” and “Schauen”?.
One of the answers contains this plot from Atlas der Alltagssprache, which shows how people formulate a call like "Look (there)!"
In the Berlin dialect there is actually "kieken" [kiːkən] as form of high german "gucken" and I guess that is a heritage of its low german roots. It has the tendency to swallow its surrounding morphemes, e.g. "Da kiekste, wa?" ("Da guckst Du, nicht wahr?") or "Kiekstn so?" ("Was guckst Du so?").
You ask whether there is a German "relative" (i.e., cognate) of the Dutch word. Yes, it is the North German "kieken". According to the experts on etymology, "kieken" is not cognate with "gucken". Their similarity is coincidental.
