Where does “trek” come from?
trek (Afrikaans) comes from Dutch trek, from Middle Dutch trec, from Middle Dutch trecken, from Old Dutch trecken, from Proto-West Germanic *trakkjan, from Proto-Germanic trakjaną, from Proto-Germanic -janą, from Proto-Indo-European -yéti — he, she.
trek (Afrikaans): to haul; to move; to pull
Definitions
- to haul; to move; to pull
Ancestry of “trek”, step by step
trek traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Dutch trek
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dutch | trek | appetite; journey, migration; animal migration |
| 2 | Middle Dutch | trec | — |
| 3 | Middle Dutch | trecken | to pull or draw to oneself; to go to another... |
| 4 | Old Dutch | trecken | — |
| 5 | Proto-West Germanic | *trakkjan | to drag |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | trakjaną | to drag |
| 7 | Proto-Germanic | -janą | Derives denominatives from nouns and factitives... |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -yéti | Creates intransitive, often deponent,... |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | yé- | — |
| 10 | Chichewa | iye | he, she |