Where does “treck” come from?
treck (English) comes from English trek, from Afrikaans trek, from Dutch trek, from Middle Dutch trec, from Middle Dutch trecken, from Old Dutch trecken, from Proto-West Germanic *trakkjan, from Proto-Germanic trakjaną — he, she.
treck (English): Archaic form of trek
Ancestry of “treck”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | trek | A journey by ox wagon; The Boer migration of... |
| 2 | Afrikaans | trek | to haul; to move; to pull |
| 3 | Dutch | trek | appetite; journey, migration; animal migration |
| 4 | Middle Dutch | trec | — |
| 5 | Middle Dutch | trecken | to pull or draw to oneself; to go to another... |
| 6 | Old Dutch | trecken | — |
| 7 | Proto-West Germanic | *trakkjan | — |
| 8 | Proto-Germanic | trakjaną | to drag |
| 9 | Proto-Germanic | -janą | Derives denominatives from nouns and factitives... |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -yéti | Creates intransitive, often deponent,... |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | yé- | — |
| 12 | Chichewa | iye | he, she |