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