The story
- Proto-Germanic · derived from*þrakjaz
- Proto-West Germanic · derived from*þraki
- Old High German · derived from*threc
- Middle High German · derived fromdrek
- Yiddish · borrowed fromדרעק“dirt, crap”
- English todaydreck
From Yiddish דרעק (drek, “dirt, crap”), from Middle High German drek, from Old High German *threc (in mūsthrec), from Proto-West Germanic *þraki, from Proto-Germanic *þrakjaz. Compare Cimbrian drèkh (“excrement, manure”), Dutch drek (“dung; semi-liquid filth; mud”), German Dreck (“dirt; filth”), Latin stercus (“dung, manure”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.