trocken

Significat

1. dry (not wet; lacking water)
2. dry (not sweet)
3. (person) dry (abstinent after having had an alcohol problem)
4. dry (subtly humorous, and often mildly rude)
5. dry (dull, boring)

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/ˈtʁɔkən/

Etimologia

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”).
The form trucken was originally predominant, but the word eventually became standardized in an old western variant with -o-. Cognate with Old Saxon drokno (“dry”, adverb), Old English ġedrycnan (“to dry up”).