Dictionary verb an verb *dreug- trocken trocknen antrocknen

antrocknen

(an verb)

Meanings

1.
to dry and stick
("antrocknen" is about something wet slowly drying and getting sticky to a surface. Think of wall paint.)
How useful:
Opposite (closest): abkratzen

Word Family

Root: *dreug-

This is a Germanic root with no certain members in other Indo-European languages.
The core idea was:

dry

The only English branch of the family are words around dry and drought.

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