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单词 Indo-European root: dhreu-
释义
‌‌dhreu-
To fall, flow, drip, droop.
Derivatives include dreary, and drowse.
  1. Extended form *dhreus‑. drizzle, from Old English -drysnian (in gedrysnian, to pass away, vanish), from zero-grade Germanic derived verb *drus-inōn.
  2. Extended o-grade form *dhrous‑.
    1. dreary, from Old English drēor, flowing blood, from Germanic *drauzaz;
    2. drowse, from Old English drūsian, to be sluggish, from Germanic *drūsjan.
  3. Extended zero-grade form *dhrub‑.
    1. drop, from Old English dropa, drop, from Germanic *drupan;
    2. droop, from Old Norse drūpa, to hang down, from Germanic *drūpōn, to let fall;
    3. 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‑;
    4. Germanic *drup‑, to drip, in compound *obisdrup‑ (see upo-).
  4. Suffixed zero-grade form *dhrubh-yo‑. lithotripter, lithotrity, from Greek thruptein, to crumble.
[Pokorny dhreu‑ 274.]
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