dree – English noun declension

English noun forms of dree

Noun: dree
Singulardree
Pluraldrees

Sample Sentences

  • Life is blood, shed and offered. / The eagle’s eye can face this dree. / To beasts of chase the lie is proffered: / Timor Mortis Conturbat Me. [1958, T[erence] H[anbury] White, chapter VIII, in The Once and Future King, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam's Sons, →ISBN, book I (The Sword in the Stone):]

Etymology

1. Probably partly:
2. * derived from the verb (see etymology 1); and
3. * borrowed from Scots dree, or derived from its etymon Middle English dri, drie, dregh, dreghe (“annoyance, trouble; grief; period of time”), possibly from Middle English dregh, dri, drie (“burdensome; depressing, dismal; large, tall; lasting, long; long-suffering, patient; tedious; of blows: hard, heavy; of the face: unchanging, unmoved; of a person: strong, valorous”), from Old English *drēog, *drēoȝ, dreoh (“earnest; fit; sober”), and then probably partly:
4. ** shortened from Old English gedrēog (“calm, quiet; sober; fit, suitable”, adjective); and
5. ** influenced by Old Norse drjúgr (“sufficient; excessive, very; great; strong”), from Proto-Germanic *dreugaz (see above).
6. Doublet of dreich. See: Middle English Nouns 'dregh', Old Norse Nouns 'drjúgr'.