"strecchen" meaning in Middle English

See strecchen in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

IPA: /ˈstrɛtʃən/
Etymology: From Old English streċċan, from Proto-West Germanic *strakkjan. Etymology templates: {{inh|enm|ang|streċċan}} Old English streċċan, {{inh|enm|gmw-pro|*strakkjan}} Proto-West Germanic *strakkjan Head templates: {{head|enm|verb}} strecchen Inflection templates: {{enm-conj-wk|strecch|streight|c=irr|c2=ed}} Forms: no-table-tags [table-tags], strecchen [infinitive], to strecchen [infinitive], strecche [infinitive], strecche [first-person, present, singular], streighte [first-person, past, singular], strecched [first-person, past, singular], strecchest [present, second-person, singular], streightest [past, second-person, singular], strecchedest [past, second-person, singular], streccheth [present, singular, third-person], streighte [past, singular, third-person], strecched [past, singular, third-person], strecche [present, singular, subjunctive], streighte [past, singular, subjunctive], strecched [past, singular, subjunctive], strecche [imperative, present, singular], - [imperative, past, singular], strecchen [plural, present], strecche [plural, present], streighten [past, plural], streighte [past, plural], streccheden [past, plural], strecchede [past, plural], streccheth [imperative, plural, present], strecche [imperative, plural, present], - [imperative, past, plural], strecchynge [participle, present], strecchende [participle, present], streight [participle, past], strecched [participle, past], ystreight [participle, past], ystrecched [participle, past], strechchen [alternative], strecche [alternative], stretchen [alternative]
  1. To stretch out, spread, extend
    Sense id: en-strecchen-enm-verb-3WtDehaN Categories (other): Middle English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Middle English entries with incorrect language header: 17 8 21 23 10 10 11
  2. To stretch, smoothen
    Sense id: en-strecchen-enm-verb-QzW3Mn8H
  3. To reach, project, be located out to a point
    Sense id: en-strecchen-enm-verb-yRCQf~ym Categories (other): Middle English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Middle English entries with incorrect language header: 17 8 21 23 10 10 11 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 18 8 36 11 10 10 8 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 14 7 45 10 9 8 7
  4. (figurative) To extend to, include, apply Tags: figuratively
    Sense id: en-strecchen-enm-verb-wN~jTSQx Categories (other): Middle English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Middle English entries with incorrect language header: 17 8 21 23 10 10 11
  5. (figurative) To reach, attain Tags: figuratively
    Sense id: en-strecchen-enm-verb-vSjD9qn9 Categories (other): Middle English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Middle English entries with incorrect language header: 17 8 21 23 10 10 11
  6. (auxillary) To be able to, to do
    Sense id: en-strecchen-enm-verb-ITdZ0~uO
  7. To go, travel
    Sense id: en-strecchen-enm-verb-nAVCbEgg Categories (other): Middle English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Middle English entries with incorrect language header: 17 8 21 23 10 10 11
{
  "descendants": [
    {
      "lang": "English",
      "lang_code": "en",
      "word": "stretch"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Yola",
      "lang_code": "yol",
      "raw_tags": [
        "ppl."
      ],
      "word": "sthraught"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "ang",
        "3": "streċċan"
      },
      "expansion": "Old English streċċan",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "gmw-pro",
        "3": "*strakkjan"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-West Germanic *strakkjan",
      "name": "inh"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Old English streċċan, from Proto-West Germanic *strakkjan.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "enm-conj-wk",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "strecchen",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "infinitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "to strecchen",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "infinitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "strecche",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "infinitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "strecche",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "streighte",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "past",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "strecched",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "past",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "strecchest",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "streightest",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "strecchedest",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "streccheth",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "streighte",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "strecched",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "strecche",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "subjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "streighte",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "singular",
        "subjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "strecched",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "singular",
        "subjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "strecche",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "past",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "strecchen",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "strecche",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "streighten",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "streighte",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "streccheden",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "strecchede",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "streccheth",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "strecche",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "strecchynge",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "strecchende",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "streight",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "strecched",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ystreight",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ystrecched",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "strechchen",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "strecche",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stretchen",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "verb"
      },
      "expansion": "strecchen",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "strecch",
        "2": "streight",
        "c": "irr",
        "c2": "ed"
      },
      "name": "enm-conj-wk"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Middle English",
  "lang_code": "enm",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "17 8 21 23 10 10 11",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Middle English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To stretch out, spread, extend"
      ],
      "id": "en-strecchen-enm-verb-3WtDehaN",
      "links": [
        [
          "stretch",
          "stretch"
        ],
        [
          "spread",
          "spread"
        ],
        [
          "extend",
          "extend"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "To stretch, smoothen"
      ],
      "id": "en-strecchen-enm-verb-QzW3Mn8H",
      "links": [
        [
          "stretch",
          "stretch"
        ],
        [
          "smoothen",
          "smoothen"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "17 8 21 23 10 10 11",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Middle English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "18 8 36 11 10 10 8",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "14 7 45 10 9 8 7",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To reach, project, be located out to a point"
      ],
      "id": "en-strecchen-enm-verb-yRCQf~ym",
      "links": [
        [
          "reach",
          "reach"
        ],
        [
          "project",
          "project"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "17 8 21 23 10 10 11",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Middle English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To extend to, include, apply"
      ],
      "id": "en-strecchen-enm-verb-wN~jTSQx",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figurative) To extend to, include, apply"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "17 8 21 23 10 10 11",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Middle English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To reach, attain"
      ],
      "id": "en-strecchen-enm-verb-vSjD9qn9",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figurative) To reach, attain"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "To be able to, to do"
      ],
      "id": "en-strecchen-enm-verb-ITdZ0~uO",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(auxillary) To be able to, to do"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "17 8 21 23 10 10 11",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Middle English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To go, travel"
      ],
      "id": "en-strecchen-enm-verb-nAVCbEgg",
      "links": [
        [
          "go",
          "go"
        ],
        [
          "travel",
          "travel"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈstrɛtʃən/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "strecchen"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "Middle English entries with incorrect language header",
    "Middle English irregular weak verbs",
    "Middle English lemmas",
    "Middle English terms derived from Old English",
    "Middle English terms derived from Proto-West Germanic",
    "Middle English terms inherited from Old English",
    "Middle English terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic",
    "Middle English verbs",
    "Middle English weak verbs",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "lang": "English",
      "lang_code": "en",
      "word": "stretch"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Yola",
      "lang_code": "yol",
      "raw_tags": [
        "ppl."
      ],
      "word": "sthraught"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "ang",
        "3": "streċċan"
      },
      "expansion": "Old English streċċan",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "gmw-pro",
        "3": "*strakkjan"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-West Germanic *strakkjan",
      "name": "inh"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Old English streċċan, from Proto-West Germanic *strakkjan.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "enm-conj-wk",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "strecchen",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "infinitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "to strecchen",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "infinitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "strecche",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "infinitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "strecche",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "streighte",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "past",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "strecched",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "past",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "strecchest",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "streightest",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "strecchedest",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "streccheth",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "streighte",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "strecched",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "strecche",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "subjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "streighte",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "singular",
        "subjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "strecched",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "singular",
        "subjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "strecche",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "past",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "strecchen",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "strecche",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "streighten",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "streighte",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "streccheden",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "strecchede",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "streccheth",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "strecche",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "strecchynge",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "strecchende",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "streight",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "strecched",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ystreight",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ystrecched",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "strechchen",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "strecche",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stretchen",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "verb"
      },
      "expansion": "strecchen",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "strecch",
        "2": "streight",
        "c": "irr",
        "c2": "ed"
      },
      "name": "enm-conj-wk"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Middle English",
  "lang_code": "enm",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "To stretch out, spread, extend"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "stretch",
          "stretch"
        ],
        [
          "spread",
          "spread"
        ],
        [
          "extend",
          "extend"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "To stretch, smoothen"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "stretch",
          "stretch"
        ],
        [
          "smoothen",
          "smoothen"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "To reach, project, be located out to a point"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "reach",
          "reach"
        ],
        [
          "project",
          "project"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "To extend to, include, apply"
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figurative) To extend to, include, apply"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "To reach, attain"
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figurative) To reach, attain"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "To be able to, to do"
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(auxillary) To be able to, to do"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "To go, travel"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "go",
          "go"
        ],
        [
          "travel",
          "travel"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈstrɛtʃən/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "strecchen"
}

Download raw JSONL data for strecchen meaning in Middle English (5.0kB)

{
  "called_from": "form_descriptions/1831",
  "msg": "unrecognized sense qualifier: auxillary",
  "path": [
    "strecchen"
  ],
  "section": "Middle English",
  "subsection": "verb",
  "title": "strecchen",
  "trace": ""
}

{
  "called_from": "form_descriptions/1831",
  "msg": "unrecognized sense qualifier: auxillary",
  "path": [
    "strecchen"
  ],
  "section": "Middle English",
  "subsection": "verb",
  "title": "strecchen",
  "trace": ""
}

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