- dhreĝ-
- dhreĝ-English meaning: to pullDeutsche Übersetzung: “ziehen; dahinziehen, gleiten, streifen”Note: synonymous with trü̆ gh- (see there)Material: O.Ind. dhrájati “ glides, slides there “, prá-dhrajati “ hurries “, dhrájas- n., dhrajatif. “ the pranks, pull”, dhrǘ j- perhaps “ attraction “, dhrǘ ji-, dhrüjí - f. “pull, urge, desire”; O.N. drük f. ‘stripe” (: O.Ind. drüj-); nasalized in addition perhaps Goth. drigkan, O.Ice. drekka, O.E. drincan, O.H.G. trinkan “drink” (“make a good gulp, draw from drinking-vessel “); Maybe Alb. dreka, drekë “dinner”, darkë (*drakë) ‘supper” Lith. drežó ti “ smooth down “, drūžas, druože ̃ “ streaky “, also (?) Lith. dre ́ž-iu, -ti “ rend “, nudre ́žti “pull down, destroy” (Juškević 346); in addition probably dróžti “carve, hit, gehen” etc, Ltv. drüzt ds.; see under dregh-1; Ltv. dragât “pull” against it presumably to M.Du. trecken “pull, drag”, s. der-4 (dergh-, dreg-) “flay” and Mũhlenbach-Endzelin I 488 m. Lith.References: WP. I 874.
Proto-Indo-European etymological dictionary. 2015.