drab
Danish
noun
Definitions
- (crime) homicide
Etymology
Inherited from Old Norse dráp (killing, deathblow), drepa (hit, kill, stab, strike, slay) inherited from Proto-Germanic *drepaną (strike, beat, hit, kill, push, slay, bump) derived from Proto-Indo-European *dhrebh-.
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*dhrebh-
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- treffen German
- *dhrebh- Proto-Indo-European
- *dʰrebʰ- Proto-Indo-European
- drap Norwegian Bokmål
- drepe Norwegian Bokmål
- *drapiz Proto-Germanic
- *drepaną Proto-Germanic
- drap Norwegian Nynorsk
- drepe Norwegian Nynorsk
- drepan Old English
- drepa Old Norse
- dráp Old Norse
- drabsmand Danish
- mand Danish
- manddrab Danish
- drepa Icelandic
- dráp Icelandic
- treffan Old High German
- drepa Faroese
- treffen Middle High German
- *drepan Old Dutch
- drepan Old Dutch
- drepan Old Saxon
- dræpa Old Swedish
- drepa Westrobothnian
- dræpæ Old Danish