drock

English

Noun

drock (plural drocks)

1. (UK, dialect) A watercourse.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “drock”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Hunsrik

Etymology

Inherited from Middle High German trucken, trocken, from Old High German truckan, trokkan (“dried out, parched, thirsty, dry”), from Proto-West Germanic *drukn, from Proto-Germanic *druknaz, *druhnaz (“dry”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰerǵʰ- (“to strengthen; become hard or solid”), from *dʰer- (“to hold, hold fast, support”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /trok/

Adjective

drock

1. dry

   Das drockne Brod

   The dry bread

   Im Winter fliehe die drockne Bletter in de Luft romm.

   In winter, the dry leaves fly around in the air.

Declension

Declension of drock (see also Appendix:Hunsrik adjectives)
		masculine	feminine	neuter	plural
Weak inflection	nominative	drock	drock	drock	drockne
	accusative	drockne	drock	drock	drockne
	dative	drockne	drockne	drockne	drockne
Strong inflection	nominative	drockner	drockne	drocknes	drockne
	accusative	drockne	drockne	drocknes	drockne
	dative	drocknem	drockner	drocknem	drockne

Antonyms

• nass

Further reading

• Online Hunsrik Dictionary

Plautdietsch

Adjective

drock

1. busy, occupied with work