drock

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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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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

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

Further reading

Plautdietsch

Adjective

drock

  1. busy, occupied with work
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