streccan
Old English
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic [Term?], from Proto-Germanic *strakjaną, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)treg-.
Verb
streċċan
- to stretch, hold out, extend
- to spread out
- to prostrate
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