estarricar

Galician

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French estriquer (“to make longer, to stretch”), whence French étriquer (“to narrow”); from Proto-Germanic *strīkaną (“to stroke, to rub”),[1] from Proto-Indo-European *streyg- (“to stroke, rub, press”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /estariˈkaɾ/

Verb

estarricar (first-person singular present estarrico, first-person singular preterite estarriquei, past participle estarricado)

  1. (transitive) to stretch
  2. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to stretch oneself

Conjugation

Synonyms

References

  1. “étriquer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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