pretekať

Slovak

Etymology

From pre- + -tekať, which is the imperfective form of tiecť used in compounds. Inherited from Proto-Slavic *teťi (to flow, run) from earlier *tekti, from Proto-Indo-European *tekʷ- (to run, flow).

The primary meaning of the word tiecť and its compounds is to flow (sense 1), but the other meaning, to run, has been preserved in some compounds (sense 2).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈprecekac]

Verb

pretekať impf

  1. imperfective of pretiecť
  2. to race, to compete

Conjugation

Further reading

  • pretekať”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024
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