Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗Soil or earth. · A stain or spot (on clothes etc); any foreign substance that worsens appearance. · Previously unknown facts or rumors about a person. · Meanness; sordidness.
To make foul or filthy; soil; befoul; dirty
From Middle English drit (“excrement”), from Old Norse drit (“excrement”), from Proto-Germanic *dritą, *dritō (“excrement”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰreyd-, *treydʰ- (“to have diarrhea”). Cognate with dialectal Danish and Norn drit (“excrement”), Norwegian dritt (“excrement”), dialectal Swedish dret (“shit”), Faroese and Icelandic drit (“bird excrement”), Dutch drijten (“to defecate”), drits (“dirt, mud, filth”), drijt and dreet (“excrement”), Low German drieten (“to defecate”), Driet (“shit”), regional German Driss (“shit”), Old English ġedrītan (“to defecate”). The word originally referred to excrement before shifting to the current sense of "soil". For a semantic parallel, see Norwegian skitt (“dirt, filth, grime, mud”), from Old Norse skítr (“shit”), which is cognate with English shit.
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- Inherited-form mentiondritenm
- Derivation mentiondritnon
- Derivation mention*dritągem-pro
- Derivation mention*dʰreyd-ine-pro
- Cognate mentiondritnrn
- Cognate mentiondrittno
- Cognate mentiondretsv
- Cognate mentiondritis
- Cognate mentiondrijtennl
- Cognate mentiondrietennds
- Cognate mentionDrissde
- Cognate mentionġedrītanang
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