drock
English
Noun
drock (plural drocks)
- (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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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
- IPA(key): /trok/
Adjective
drock
- 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
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