Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA female tree spirit; a woodnymph or tree nymph. · Any of the dryas plants, especially the plant mountain avens.
From Old French driade (“wood nymph”), from Latin Dryas, Dryadis, from Ancient Greek Δρυάς (Druás, “dryad”), from δρῦς (drûs, “oak”), from Proto-Indo-European *derew(o)- (“tree, wood”); cf. Proto-Indo-European *dóru (“tree”).
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- Derivation mentiondriadefro
- Derivation mentionDryas, Dryadisla
- Derivation mentionΔρυάςgrc
- Derivation mention*derew(o)-ine-pro
- Cognate mention*dóruine-pro
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