Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗A small quantity of liquid, just large enough to hold its own rounded shape through surface tension, especially one that falls from a source of liquid. · A dose of liquid medicine in the form of a drop (sense 1). · A liquid medicine that is intended to be administered in drops (sense 1). · A very small quantity of liquid, or (by extension) of anything.
From Late Middle English droppe, Middle English drope (“small quantity of liquid; small or least amount of something; pendant jewel; dripping of a liquid; a shower; nasal flow, catarrh; speck, spot; blemish; disease causing spots on the skin”) [and other forms], from Old English dropa (“a drop”), from Proto-West Germanic *dropō (“drop (of liquid)”), from Proto-Germanic *drupô (“drop (of liquid)”),, from *dreupaną (“to drip, droop”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrebʰ- (“to drip, drop”). Cognates Cognate with Saterland Frisian Droupe, Druppe (“drop”), Dutch drop, drup (“droplet”), German Tropfen (“drop”), German Low German Drüpp (“drop”), Luxembourgish Drëps (“drop”), Vilamovian tropa, troppa (“drop”), Yiddish טראָפּן (tropn, “drop”), Danish dråbe (“drop”), Faroese and Icelandic dropi (“drop”), Norwegian Bokmål dråpe (“drop”), Norwegian Nynorsk drope (“drop”), Swedish droppe (“drop”).
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- Root classification mention*dʰrewb-ine-pro
- Inherited-form mentiondroppeenm
- Inherited-form mentiondropeenm · small quantity of liquid; small or least amount of something; pendant jewel; dripping of a liquid; a shower; nasal flow, catarrh; speck, spot; blemish; disease causing spots on the skin
- Inherited-form mentiondropaang · a drop
- Inherited-form mention*dropōgmw-pro · drop (of liquid)
- Inherited-form mention*drupôgem-pro · drop (of liquid)
- Derivation mention*dʰrebʰ-ine-pro · to drip, drop
- Cognate mentionDroupestq
- Cognate mentiondropnl
- Cognate mentionTropfende · drop
- Cognate mentionDrëpslb · drop
- Cognate mentiontropawym
- Cognate mentionטראָפּןyi · drop
- Cognate mentiondråbeda · drop
- Cognate mentiondråpenb · drop
- Cognate mentiondropenn · drop
- Cognate mentiondroppesv · drop
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