dree

Meaning

Verb

1. To bear or endure (something); to put up with, to suffer, to undergo.
2. To endure; to brook; also, to be able to do or continue.

Noun

Grief; suffering; trouble.

Adv

1. Of the doing of a task: with concentration; laboriously.
2. Chiefly of the falling of rain: without pause or stop; continuously, incessantly.
3. Slowly, tediously.

Adj

Alternative form of dreich

Synonyms

get

pass

suffer

Pronounced as (IPA)

/dɹiː/

Etymology

Probably partly borrowed from Scots dree, and partly derived from its etymon Middle English dreen, dreghen, dreogen, drien, from Old English drēogan, from Proto-Germanic *dreuganą (“to act; to work, (specifically) to do military service”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrewgʰ- (“to hold fast”). Doublet of dreich, dright, and drighten.
cognates
* Gothic 𐌳𐍂𐌹𐌿𐌲𐌰𐌽 (driugan, “to do military service”)
* Icelandic drýgja (“to commit, connect, perpetrate, lengthen”)
* Scots dree, drie (“to bear, endure, suffer, thole”)