trek

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To make a long, slow, or difficult journey, especially on foot.

   They trekked through the mountains for three days.

2. 2
   noun

   A long, slow, or difficult journey, especially on foot.

   We're planning a trek up Kilimanjaro next summer.

Simplified etymology

Trek entered English in the early 19th century from Dutch, in which it meant “pull” or “travel.” The word appears in Great Trek, the name given to the Boers’ northward movement that began in 1835.

From Afrikaans trek, from Dutch trekken, from Middle Dutch trekken (weak verb) and trēken (“to trek, place, bring, move”, strong verb), from Old Dutch *trekkan, *trekan, from Proto-West Germanic *trekan, from Proto-Germanic *trekaną, *trakjaną (“to drag, haul, scrape, pull”), from Proto-Indo-European *dreg- (“to drag, scrape”).

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