driva
Old Swedish
verb
Definitions
- drive forward; push on
- force
- manage; perform
- inflict
- drift; wander about
Etymology
Inherited from Old Norse drífa inherited from Proto-Germanic *drībaną (drive).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*drībaną
Gloss
drive
Concept
Semantic Field
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Ontological Category
Action/Process
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- *dʰreybʰ- Proto-Indo-European
- drive Norwegian Bokmål
- *drībandz Proto-Germanic
- *drībaną Proto-Germanic
- driva Norwegian Nynorsk
- drīfan Old English
- drífa Old Norse
- drive Danish
- drífa Icelandic
- *drīvan Old High German
- trīban, triban Old High German
- dreiwen Luxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- 𐌳𐍂𐌴𐌹𐌱𐌰𐌽 Gothic
- *drīban gmw-pro
- drīvan Old Dutch
- drīven Old Dutch
- drīvan Old Saxon
- drīva Old Frisian