dreich

English

[dɹiːx]

adj

Definitions

(Northern England) Bleak, miserable, dismal, cheerless, dreary.

Etymology

Borrowed from Scots dreich (slow, long-lasting, extensive, tiresome, tedious, lasting).

Origin

Scots

dreich

Gloss

slow, long-lasting, extensive, tiresome, tedious, lasting

Concept

Semantic Field

Time

Ontological Category

Property

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Distribution of cognates by language

Geogrpahic distribution of cognates

Cognates and derived terms

*dʰrewgʰ- Proto-Indo-European
drøy Norwegian Bokmål
*dreugaz Proto-Germanic
*drēoh Old English
drjúgr Old Norse
drøj Danish
drjúgur Icelandic
drwg Welsh
hin Welsh
drúgvur Faroese
drȳgher, drygher Old Swedish
drug Westrobothnian
dreich Scots
dreichly Scots