drown

Oznaczający (Angielski)

  1. (intransitive) To die from suffocation while immersed in water or other fluid.
  2. (transitive) To kill by suffocating in water or another liquid.
  3. (intransitive) To be flooded: to be inundated with or submerged in (literally) water or (figuratively) other things; to be overwhelmed.
  4. (figuratively, transitive) To inundate, submerge, overwhelm.
  5. (figuratively, transitive) To obscure, particularly amid an overwhelming volume of other items.

Koncepcje

tonąć

dusić

topić

utopić

zatapiać

Częstotliwość

B2
Wymawiane jako (IPA)
/dɹaʊn/
Etymologia (Angielski)

In summary

From Middle English drownen, drounen, drunen (“to drown”), of obscure and uncertain origin. The OED suggests an unattested Old English form *drūnian. Harper 2001 points to Old English druncnian, ġedruncnian (> Middle English drunknen, dronknen (“to drown”)), "probably influenced" by Old Norse drukkna (cf. Icelandic drukkna, Danish drukne (“to drown”)). Funk & Wagnall's has 'of uncertain origin'. It has been theorised (see e.g. ODS) that it may represent a direct loan of Old Norse drukkna, but this is described by the OED as being "on phonetic and other grounds [...] highly improbable", unless one considers the possibility of an unattested variant in Old Norse *drunkna.

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