trampen.
to hitchhike
Meaning & usage
to hitchhike
to tramp
Where this word comes from
From English tramp, from Middle English trampen (“to walk heavily”), from Middle Low German trampen (“to stamp”) (trampeln (“to walk with heavy steps”), see English trample) or from Middle Dutch trampen (“to stamp”), from Proto-West Germanic *trampan (“to step”). The sense "hitchhike" is a pseudo-anglicism.
to step; to tread
Where this word comes from
A dialectal word which has an unshifted -p- throughout High German. Therefore possibly from Middle Low German trampen, whence also English tramp. Compare also Middle Dutch trampen, whereas only the frequentative trampeln is attested in Middle High German. The word derives from Proto-West Germanic *trampan (“to step”).
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