trinken

From Middle High German trinken, from Old High German trinkan (attested since the 8th century), from Proto-West Germanic *drinkan.^[1]

Germanic cognates with identical meaning include Old Saxon drinkan (and Low German drinken), Old Dutch drinkan (and Dutch drinken, Afrikaans drink), Old English drincan (and Modern English drink), Old Frisian drinka (and West Frisian drinke), Old Norse drekka (and Icelandic drekka, Faroese drekka, Norwegian drikke, Swedish dricka, Danish drikke), Gothic 𐌳𐍂𐌹𐌲𐌺𐌰𐌽 (drigkan) and Vandalic drincan.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtʁɪŋkən/, [ˈtʰʁ̥ɪŋʔŋ̩], [ˈtʰʁ̥ɪŋkŋ̩]
• IPA^(key): /ˈtrɪŋkən/, [ˈtʰr̥ɪŋkən], [ˈtʰr̥ɪŋkŋ̩]

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• Rhymes: -ɪŋkən
• Hyphenation: trin‧ken

trinken (class 3 strong, third-person singular present trinkt, past tense trank, past participle getrunken, past subjunctive tränke, auxiliary haben)

1. (transitive) to drink (to drink liquids (in bottles, glasses, etc.) by mouth)
2. (intransitive) to drink, to imbibe (to consume alcoholic beverages)

   Synonym: see Thesaurus:betrinken

3. (intransitive) to drink; to toast (engage in a salutation (of someone), accompanying the raising of glasses while drinking alcohol)
4. (reflexive) to drink one's fill; to drink to satiety

• antrinken
• austrinken
• betrinken
• ertrinken
• Getränk n
• Trank m
• tränken
• Trinken n
• Trinker m
• Trinkgeld n
• Trinkglas
• Trinkwasser n
• Trunk m
• Wasser predigen und Wein trinken
• über den Durst trinken

• “trinken” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “trinken” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “trinken” in Duden online
• “trinken” in OpenThesaurus.de
• trinken on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de

Inherited from Old High German trinkan. Cognate with English drink, Dutch drinken, Old Saxon drinkan.

• IPA^(key): (before 13^th CE) /ˈtrinkən/

trinken (class 3 strong, third-person singular present trinket, past tense trank, past participle getrunken, past subjunctive trünke, auxiliary hān)

1. (transitive) to drink

   Er hât niht wol getrunken, der sich übertrinket. ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

2. (intransitive) to drink; to toast

• Alemannic German: trinke

  Italian Walser: trenhu, trénge, tringhien, trinche

• Bavarian: trinkn, dringa

  Cimbrian: trinkhan, trinkan (Tredici Comuni)

  Mòcheno: trinken

  Udinese: trinkn, trinkhn, trinckn

• Central Franconian: drenke, dronke, drönke (Eifel), drinke (Kölsch), drinke

  Hunsrik: drinke

• German: trinken
• Luxembourgish: drénken
• Rhine Franconian:

  Pennsylvania German: drinke

• Vilamovian: trynkja
• Yiddish: טרינקען (trinken)
• → Middle French: trinquer
  • French: trinquer
• → Galician: trincar
• → Italian: trincare
• → Sicilian: ntrincari
• → Spanish: trincar
• → Venetan: trincar, trincàr

• Benecke, Georg Friedrich, Müller, Wilhelm, Zarncke, Friedrich (1863) “trinken”, in Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch: mit Benutzung des Nachlasses von Benecke, Stuttgart: S. Hirzel

From Middle High German trinken, from Old High German trinkan, from Proto-West Germanic *drinkan, from Proto-Germanic *drinkaną (“to drink”). Cognate with German trinken, English drink.

trinken

1. to drink

• Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien