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dhreu- To fall, flow, drip, droop. Derivatives include dreary, and drowse.- Extended form *dhreus‑. drizzle, from Old English -drysnian (in gedrysnian, to pass away, vanish), from zero-grade Germanic derived verb *drus-inōn.
- Extended o-grade form *dhrous‑.
- dreary, from Old English drēor, flowing blood, from Germanic *drauzaz;
- drowse, from Old English drūsian, to be sluggish, from Germanic *drūsjan.
- Extended zero-grade form *dhrub‑.
- drop, from Old English dropa, drop, from Germanic *drupan;
- droop, from Old Norse drūpa, to hang down, from Germanic *drūpōn, to let fall;
- drip, from Middle English drippen, to drip, drop, from an unattested Old English *dryppan or another source akin to Old English droppa, drop, from Germanic geminated *drupp‑;
- Germanic *drup‑, to drip, in compound *obisdrup‑ (see upo-).
- Suffixed zero-grade form *dhrubh-yo‑. lithotripter, lithotrity, from Greek thruptein, to crumble.
[Pokorny dhreu‑ 274.] |
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