The story
- Middle English · inherited fromdeu drop
- English todaydewdrop
From Middle English deu drop, dew droppe, dewe droppe, equivalent to dew + drop. Compare Dutch dauwdruppel (“dewdrop”), German Tautropfen (“dewdrop”), Danish dugdråbe (“dewdrop”), Swedish daggdroppe (“dewdrop”), Faroese døggdropi (“dewdrop”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.