dreve

The story

1. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*dʰrebʰ-“to become thick or cloudy, curdle, ferment”
2. Proto-Germanic · inherited from*drōbijaną“to disturb, excite, make muddy”
3. Old English · inherited fromdrēfan
4. Middle English · inherited fromdreven
5. English todaydreve

From Middle English dreven (also droven), from Old English drēfan, *drōfian (“to trouble, vex, agitate, disturb the mind of”), from Proto-Germanic *drōbijaną (“to disturb, excite, make muddy”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrebʰ- (“to become thick or cloudy, curdle, ferment”). Cognate with Low German dröven, Dutch droeven (“to be sad, grieve”), German trüben (“to dull, dim, cloud, tarnish, trouble”), Swedish bedröva (“to grieve, sadden, distress”). Related to droff.

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