trekke

Borrowed via English trek from Afrikaans trek, from Dutch trekken. Doublet of trække.

• IPA^(key): /trɛkə/, [ˈtˢɹɛɡ̊ə], [ˈtˢʁ̥aɡ̊ə]

trekke (past tense trekkede, past participle trekket)

1. to trek

• “trekke” in Den Danske Ordbog

trekke

1. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of trekken

From Middle Low German trecken; cognate with Danish trække.

trekke (imperative trekk, present tense trekker, passive trekkes, simple past trakk, past participle trukket, present participle trekkende)

1. to pull
2. to subtract
3. to draw (e.g. a conclusion)
4. (cooking) to steep (soak an item in liquid)
5. (zoology, of animals, birds etc.) to migrate
6. trekke (seg) tilbake - to withdraw, retreat
7. trekke (seg) - to consider

• trekk (noun)

• “trekke” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Old Frisian trekka, from Proto-West Germanic *trakkjan (“to drag”).

trekke

1. to pull

   Synonym: lûke

• Variant past-tense 1st: truts
• Variant past-tense 2nd: trutst
• Variant past-tense 3rd: truts
• Variant past plural: trutsen

• “trekke”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011