dreg

The story

1. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*dʰrā́ks“sediment”
2. Proto-Germanic · derived from*dragjō
3. Old Norse · borrowed fromdregg“sediment”
4. English todaydreg

Borrowed from Old Norse dregg (“sediment”), from Proto-Germanic *dragjō (whence also Icelandic dregg, Swedish drägg), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrā́ks (“sediment”); see also Latin fraces (“lees of oil”), Albanian ndrag (“to make dirty, foul”), dra (“sediments of dairy products or liquids”).

Words from the same roots