streccan

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic [Term?], from Proto-Germanic *strakjaną, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)treg-.

Verb

streċċan

Derived terms

āstreċċan
ġestreċċan

Descendants

Middle English: streken, *strekken, strecchen; streiȝt, streght, streight
- Scots: strek; straucht, straicht
- English: stretch; streek, streak, strake (dialectal); straight
  - → Esperanto: streĉi

References

streċċan in Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary

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