Where does “trickle” come from?
I need to point out an inconsistency: the chain provided traces "strickle/strike" but the headword is "trickle." These are different words with different etymologies.
If you meant to ask about **strickle** (a tool for leveling grain), here's the sentence:
Strickle comes from English strike, from Middle English striken, from Old English strīcan, from Proto-Germanic strīkaną, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European streyg-, meaning to stroke or move.
If you meant **trickle**, that has a separate origin (likely from Middle Dutch *trickelen* or similar) and wouldn't follow this chain.
Please clarify which headword you need, and I'll provide the correct one-sentence summary.
trickle (English): A very thin river; A very thin flow; the act of...
Definitions
- A very thin river; A very thin flow; the act of...
Ancestry of “trickle”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | strickle | A rod used to level grain etc. when being... |
| 2 | Middle English | strikile | — |
Words derived from “trickle”