The story
- Old Norse · derived fromdrúpr“drooping sadness”
- Middle English · inherited fromdrupi
- English todaydroopy
Inherited from Middle English drupi, from drup (“sad”), from Old Norse drúpr (“drooping sadness”); related to Middle English drupen, droupen (“to sag, droop”), also from Old Norse. By surface analysis, droop + -y.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.