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Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/dragjō
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Proto-Germanic
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *dʰragʰ-yeh₂, from *dʰrā́ks.[1]
Noun
*dragjō f[1]
- (North Germanic) dregs, sediment
Inflection
| ō-stemDeclension of *dragjō (ō-stem) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | *dragjō | *dragjôz | |
| vocative | *dragjō | *dragjôz | |
| accusative | *dragjǭ | *dragjōz | |
| genitive | *dragjōz | *dragjǫ̂ | |
| dative | *dragjōi | *dragjōmaz | |
| instrumental | *dragjō | *dragjōmiz | |
Descendants
- Old Norse: dregg
- Icelandic: dregg
- Swedish: drägg
- → Middle English: dregges (plural)
- English: dregs
- →? Proto-Finnic: *rahka (“quark, curds”) (see there for further descendants)
References
- Kroonen, Guus (2013), “*dragjō-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 99: “*dʰragʰ-ieh₂-”