dekken
Meaning
- (transitive) to cover
- (transitive) to set (the table)
- (transitive) to mount and impregnate (a female animal)
Frequency
Hyphenated as
dek‧ken
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈdɛkə(n)/
Etymology
From Middle Dutch decken, from Old Dutch thecken, from Proto-West Germanic *þakkjan, from Proto-Germanic *þakjaną. Equivalent to dak (“roof”) + -en (“denominative”) and shows the effect of historical umlaut.
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