trinken

German

Etymology

From Middle High German trinken, from Old High German trinkan (attested since the 8th century), from Proto-West Germanic *drinkan.

Germanic cognates with identical meaning include Old Saxon drinkan (and Low German drinken), Old Dutch drinkan (and Dutch drinken, Afrikaans drink), Old English drincan (and Modern English drink), Old Frisian drinka (and West Frisian drinke), Old Norse drekka (and Icelandic drekka, Faroese drekka, Norwegian drikke, Swedish dricka, Danish drikke), Gothic 𐌳𐍂𐌹𐌲𐌺𐌰𐌽 (drigkan) and Vandalic drincan.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtʁɪŋkən/, ,
• IPA^(key): /ˈtrɪŋkən/, ,

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• Rhymes: -ɪŋkən
• Hyphenation: trin‧ken

Verb

trinken (class 3 strong, third-person singular present trinkt, past tense trank, past participle getrunken, past subjunctive tränke, auxiliary haben)

1. (transitive) to drink (to drink liquids (in bottles, glasses, etc.) by mouth)
2. (intransitive) to drink, to imbibe (to consume alcoholic beverages)
3. (intransitive) to drink; to toast (engage in a salutation (of someone), accompanying the raising of glasses while drinking alcohol)
4. (reflexive) to drink one's fill; to drink to satiety

Conjugation

Derived terms

• antrinken
• austrinken
• betrinken
• ertrinken
• Getränk n
• Trank m
• tränken
• Trinken n
• Trinker m
• Trinkgeld n
• Trinkglas
• Trinkwasser n
• Trunk m
• Wasser predigen und Wein trinken
• über den Durst trinken

References

Further reading

• “trinken” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “trinken” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “trinken” in Duden online
• “trinken” in OpenThesaurus.de
• trinken on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de

Middle High German

Etymology

Inherited from Old High German trinkan. Cognate with English drink, Dutch drinken, Old Saxon drinkan.

Verb

trinken (class 3 strong, third-person singular present trinket, past tense trank, past participle getrunken, past subjunctive trünke, auxiliary hân)

1. (transitive) to drink

   Er hât niht wol getrunken, der sich übertrinket. ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

2. (intransitive) to drink; to toast

Conjugation

Descendants

• Alemannic German: trinke

  Italian Walser: trenhu, trénge, tringhien, trinche

• Bavarian: trinkn, dringa

  Cimbrian: trinkhan, trinkan

  Mòcheno: trinken

  Udinese: trinkn, trinkhn, trinckn

• Central Franconian: drenke, dronke, drönke; drinke, drinke

  Hunsrik: drinke

• German: trinken
• Luxembourgish: drénken
• Rhine Franconian:

  Pennsylvania German: drinke

• Vilamovian: trynkja
• Yiddish: טרינקען (trinken)
• → Middle French: trinquer
  • French: trinquer
• → Galician: trincar
• → Italian: trincare
• → Sicilian: ntrincari
• → Spanish: trincar
• → Venetian: trincar, trincàr

References

• Benecke, Georg Friedrich, Müller, Wilhelm, Zarncke, Friedrich (1863) “trinken”, in Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch: mit Benutzung des Nachlasses von Benecke‎, Stuttgart: S. Hirzel

Mòcheno

Etymology

From Middle High German trinken, from Old High German trinkan, from Proto-West Germanic *drinkan, from Proto-Germanic *drinkaną (“to drink”). Cognate with German trinken, English drink.

Verb

trinken

1. to drink

References

• Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter , Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien