Trecker

See also: trecker

German edit

Phono-semantic matching of English tractor, whence also latinised German Traktor. After the Low German and Ripuarian verb trecken (“to drag, to pull”). Compare the same in Dutch trekker (“tractor”).

IPA^(key): /ˈtrɛkər/, [ˈtʁɛkɐ]
- IPA^(key): [ˈtχɛɡæ], [ˈtr-] (broad northern accent)
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Trecker m (strong, genitive Treckers, plural Trecker)

(somewhat informal, regional, chiefly Northern Germany) Synonym of Traktor (“tractor”)
- 2024 January 8, “Aktionen laufen an – erste Autobahnauffahrten blockiert”, in Der Spiegel‎^[1], →ISSN:
  Die Landwirte protestieren in einer Aktionswoche gegen die Agrarpolitik der Bundesregierung. Bereits am frühen Morgen blockierten Trecker Autobahnauffahrten im Land.
  (please add an English translation of this quotation)

In Northern Germany and North Rhine-Westphalia, the word Trecker is strongly predominant in everyday use, while Traktor is mostly reserved to very formal contexts. Elsewhere Trecker is usually understood, but uncommon.

Declension of Trecker [masculine, strong]