trocken

Meaning

  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)

Frequency

B2
Dialects

Basel-Landschaft

Basel-Landschaft

drogge

Basel-Landschaft

Basel-Landschaft

fuurzdrogge

Basel-Landschaft

Basel-Landschaft

schäärb

Basel-Landschaft

Basel-Landschaft

späänig

Basel-Landschaft

Basel-Landschaft

speenig

Data provided by: Deutsch-Schweizerdeutsches Wörterbuch

Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈtʁɔkən/
Etymology

In summary

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”).

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