trinken

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German

Etymology

From Middle High German trinken, from Old High German trinkan (attested since the 8th century), from Proto-West Germanic *drinkan.[1]

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

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)
    Synonym: see Thesaurus:betrinken
  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

References

  1. ^ Pfeifer, Wolfgang. 1995, 2005. Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Deutschen. München: dtv. →ISBN.

Further reading

Middle High German

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (before 13th CE) /ˈtrinkən/

Verb

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

  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

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