strecchen
Middle English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Old English streċċan, from Proto-West Germanic *strakkjan.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
strecchen
- To stretch out, spread, extend
- To stretch, smoothen
- To reach, project, be located out to a point
- (figurative) To extend to, include, apply
- (figurative) To reach, attain
- (auxillary) To be able to, to do
- To go, travel
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of strecchen (weak irregular/in -ed)
1Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.
Descendants edit
- English: stretch
References edit
- “strecchen, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-27.