drýgja
Icelandic
/ˈtriːja/
verb-weak
Definitions
- to commit, to perpetrate
- to eke out, to make something go further
Etymology
Inherited from Old Norse drýgja (perform, practise) inherited from Proto-Germanic *driugijaną.
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*driugijaną
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- adree English
- dree English
- dreeing English
- dreely English
- endree English
- *dʰrewgʰ- Proto-Indo-European
- drøy Norwegian Bokmål
- *dreuganą Proto-Germanic
- *dreugaz Proto-Germanic
- *driugijaną Proto-Germanic
- adreogan Old English
- drēogan Old English
- þurhdreogan Old English
- dreen Middle English
- drjúgr Old Norse
- drýgja Old Norse
- drøj Danish
- drjúgur Icelandic
- drúgvur Faroese
- 𐌳𐍂𐌹𐌿𐌲𐌰𐌽 Gothic
- drȳgher, drygher Old Swedish
- drug Westrobothnian
- dryj Westrobothnian