drev

From Old Norse drif, from Proto-Germanic *dribą, cognate with Swedish drev. Derived from the verb *drībaną (“to drive”).

• IPA^(key): /drev/, [ˈd̥ʁæw]

drev n (singular definite drevet, plural indefinite drev)

1. (computing) drive (a mass-storage device)
2. (engineering) pinion (a gear in a gear drive train)
3. (obsolete) drove (driven animals)
4. (obsolete) battue (a form of hunting)

• “drev” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “Drev,1” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• IPA^(key): /dreːˀv/, [ˈd̥ʁæwˀ]

drev

1. past tense of drive

• dreiv

drev

1. simple past of drive

From Old Norse dreif, from Proto-Germanic *draibō, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰreybʰ-.

drev n

1. a drive (of hunters), a beat, a battue
2. a media drive (journalists going like a drive of hunters after a game)
3. (mechanics) a drive, a sprocket, a chainwheel
4. tow, stuffing (around windows or in the threads of pipes)
5. (mechanical engineering, cycling) sprocket

• dreva
• drever
• drevkarl
• kedjedrev
• bakdrev
• framdrev

• hetsjakt
• klappjakt

drev

1. past indicative of driva

• vred