drift

Betekenis (Engels)

Synoniemen

be adrift

wander aimlessly

move gently

swim across

roam about

be scattered

float along

float away

kick about

wander about

wander around

displase

go downstream

move smoothly

be without aim

follow the wind

have no aim

have no purpose

slip along

pile engine

drift current

wind drift

stellar group

float along to pass

wind-driven current

deviation dispersion

horizontal workings

conceit

erst

Frequentie

C1
Uitgesproken als (IPA)
/dɹɪft/
Etymologie (Engels)

In summary

From Middle English drift, dryft (“act of driving, drove, shower of rain or snow, impulse”), from Old English *drift (“drift”), from Proto-Germanic *driftiz (“drift”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰreybʰ- (“to drive, push”). Equivalent to drive + -t; cognate with North Frisian drift (“drift”), Saterland Frisian Drift (“current, flow, stream, drift”), Dutch drift (“drift, passion, urge”), German Drift (“drift”) and Trift (“drove, pasture”), Danish drift (“impulse, instinct”), Swedish drift (“impulse, instinct”), Icelandic drift (“drift, snow-drift”).

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