strecchen

Middle English

Alternative forms
  • strechchen, strecche, stretchen

Etymology

From Old English streċċan, from Proto-West Germanic *strakkjan.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈstrɛtʃən/

Verb

strecchen

  1. To stretch out, spread, extend
  2. To stretch, smoothen
  3. To reach, project, be located out to a point
  4. (figurative) To extend to, include, apply
  5. (figurative) To reach, attain
  6. (auxillary) To be able to, to do
  7. To go, travel

Conjugation
Conjugation of strecchen (weak irregular/in -ed)
infinitive (to) strecchen, strecche
present tense past tense
1st-person singular strecche streighte, strecched
2nd-person singular strecchest streightest, strecchedest
3rd-person singular streccheth streighte, strecched
subjunctive singular strecche
imperative singular —
plural1 strecchen, strecche streighten, streighte, streccheden, strecchede
imperative plural streccheth, strecche —
participles strecchynge, strecchende streight, strecched, ystreight, ystrecched

1Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.

Descendants
  • English: stretch

References
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