esticar

Betekenis (Engels)

1. (transitive) to stretch (lengthen by pulling)
2. (intransitive) to stretch (to be longer, as by pulling)
3. (colloquial,transitive) to extend
4. (colloquial,intransitive) to die

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/is.t͡ʃiˈka(ʁ)/

Etimologie (Engels)

Probably borrowed from Old French estrikier (“to make longer, to stretch”); ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *strakkjan (“to stretch”). Compare Galician estricar.