Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗Anything driven at random. · A mass of matter which has been driven or forced onward together in a body, or thrown together in a heap, etc., especially by wind or water. · The distance through which a current flows in a given time. · The animals being moved in a drive, as of cattle, goats, horses, pigs or sheep.
To move slowly, especially pushed by currents of water, air, etc. · To move haphazardly without any destination. · To deviate gently from the intended direction of travel. · To drive or carry, as currents do a floating body.
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dʰreybʰ-der. Proto-Germanic *drībaną Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Germanic *-þiz Proto-Germanic *driftiz Old English *drift Middle English drift English drift From Middle English drift, dryft (“act of driving, drove, shower of rain or snow, impulse”), from Old English *drift (“drift”), from Proto-Germanic *driftiz (“drift”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰreybʰ- (“to drive, push”). Equivalent to drive + -t; cognate with North Frisian drift (“drift”), Saterland Frisian Drift (“current, flow, stream, drift”), Dutch drift (“drift, passion, urge”), German Drift (“drift”) and Trift (“drove, pasture”), Danish drift (“impulse, instinct”), Swedish drift (“impulse, instinct”), Icelandic drift (“drift, snow-drift”).
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