Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗Residue that forms as a scum on the surface of molten metal from oxidation. · The impurities in metal. · A waste product from working with metal. · Worthless or trivial matter.
To remove dross from.
From Middle English drosse, dros, from Old English drōs, from Proto-Germanic *drōhs (“dregs, sediment”). Also compare Old English drōsna, drōsne (“a ground, sediment, lees, dregs, dirt, ear wax”), from Proto-Germanic *drōhsnǭ, *drōhsnō (“dregs, sediment”), derived from *drōhs. Alternatively, this may be from *dragjō + *-snō (“yeast, sediment”; compare *dragjō (“yeast”)), as if from *drēcg + -sn. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrā́ks (“sediment, yeast”). Cognate with Scots dros, drose, drosse (“small particles, fragments, dross”), Middle Dutch droes (“dregs”), Dutch droesem (“dregs”), German Drusen (“lees, dregs”), Latin fracēs (“grounds or dregs of oil”). Related also to drast, dregs.
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- Inherited-form mentiondrosseenm
- Inherited-form mentiondrōsang
- Inherited-form mention*drōhsgem-pro · dregs, sediment
- Derivation mentiondrōsnaang
- Inherited-form mention*drōhsnǭgem-pro
- Derivation mention*dʰrā́ksine-pro · sediment, yeast
- Cognate mentiondrossco
- Cognate mentiondroesdum · dregs
- Cognate mentiondroesemnl · dregs
- Cognate mentionDrusende · lees, dregs
- Cognate mentionfracēsla · grounds or dregs of oil
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