Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗verb
To make a slow or arduous journey. · To journey on foot, especially to hike through mountainous areas. · To travel by ox wagon. · To travel by walking.
noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA journey by ox wagon. · The Boer migration of 1835–1837. · A slow or difficult journey. · A long walk.
Etymology tree Dutch trekken Afrikaans trekbor. English trek From Afrikaans trek, from Dutch trekken, from Middle Dutch trekken (weak verb) and trēken (“to trek, place, bring, move”, strong verb), from Old Dutch *trekkan, *trekan, from Proto-West Germanic *trekan, from Proto-Germanic *trekaną, *trakjaną (“to drag, haul, scrape, pull”), from Proto-Indo-European *dreg- (“to drag, scrape”).
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