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Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/drītaną

This Proto-Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Germanic

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *dʰreyd- (to have diarrhea).[1] Perhaps cognate to Russian дриста́ть (dristátʹ, to shart), as well as Persian درد (dord, dregs).[2]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈdriː.tɑ.nɑ̃/

Verb

*drītaną[1][3]

  1. to defecate
  2. to urinate

Inflection

Derived terms

  • *draitijaną

Descendants

  • Proto-West Germanic: *drītan
    • Old English: drītan
    • Old Frisian: drīta
    • Old Saxon: *drītan
    • Old Dutch: *drītan
    • Old High German: trīzan; *drīzan
  • Old Norse: dríta
    • Icelandic: dríta
    • Faroese: dríta
    • Norwegian Nynorsk: drita
    • Norwegian Bokmål: drite
    • Elfdalian: dritå, draita
    • Swedish: drita[4] (dialectal (1862), not necessarily still used)
    • Danish: dritte[5] (dialectal, obsolete in common language)

References

  1. Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*drītan-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 104
  2. Rastorgujeva, V. S., Edelʹman, D. I. (2003) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ iranskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Iranian Languages] (in Russian), volume 2, Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, page 356
  3. Orel, Vladimir (2003) “*drītanan”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 76
  4. drita in Johan Ernst Rietz, Svenskt dialektlexikon (1862–1867)
  5. dritte” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog
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