trocken

== German == === Etymology === 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”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈtʁɔkən/, [ˈtʁɔkən], [ˈtʁɔkŋ̩] === Adjective === trocken (strong nominative masculine singular trockener, comparative trockener, superlative am trockensten) dry (not wet; lacking water) Antonyms: feucht, nass (wine) dry (not sweet) Antonyms: lieblich, halbtrocken (person) dry (abstinent after having had an alcohol problem) (joke) dry (subtly humorous, and often mildly rude) dry (dull, boring) ==== Declension ==== ==== Hyponyms ==== staubtrocken ==== Derived terms ==== trocknen ==== Related terms ==== Trockeneis Trockenschrank === Further reading === “trocken” in Duden online “trocken” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache Friedrich Kluge (1883), “trocken”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891