Unnumbered source etymology · variant 1/2
Original entry ↗verb
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryTo operate (a wheeled motorized vehicle). · To travel by operating a wheeled motorized vehicle. · To convey (a person, etc.) in a wheeled motorized vehicle. · To operate (an aircraft); to pilot.
From Middle English dryven, from Old English drīfan (“to drive, force, move”), from Proto-West Germanic *drīban, from Proto-Germanic *drībaną (“to drive”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰreybʰ- (“to drive, push”). Cognates Cognate with Scots drive (“to drive”), Yola dhreeve, dhrive, dreeve, drieve, drive (“to drive”), North Frisian driiv, driiw, driwe (“to drive”), West Frisian driuwe (“to drive; to float”), Alemannic German triibe (“to drive”), Dutch drijven (“to drive, push”), German treiben (“to drive, push, propel”), Low German drieven (“to drive, drift, push”), Luxembourgish dreiwen (“to drive, propel”), Yiddish טרײַבן (traybn, “to drive”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål drive (“to drive, propel”), Icelandic drífa (“to drive”), Norwegian Nynorsk driva, drive (“to drive, move; to propel; to run”), Swedish driva (“to drive, compel; to drift; to run”), Gothic 𐌳𐍂𐌴𐌹𐌱𐌰𐌽 (dreiban, “to drive”).
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These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Derivation mentiondryvenenm
- Derivation mentiondrīfanang
- Derivation mention*drībangmw-pro
- Derivation mention*drībanągem-pro
- Derivation mention*dʰreybʰ-ine-pro
- Cognate mentiondrivesco
- Cognate mentiondhreeveyol
- Cognate mentiondriivfrr
- Cognate mentiondriuwefy
- Cognate mentiontriibegsw
- Cognate mentiondrijvennl
- Cognate mentiontreibende
- Cognate mentiondrievennds
- Cognate mentiondreiwenlb
- Cognate mentionטרײַבןyi
- Cognate mentiondrivenb
- Cognate mentiondrífais
- Cognate mentiondrivann
- Cognate mentiondrivasv
- Cognate mention𐌳𐍂𐌴𐌹𐌱𐌰𐌽got
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