The story
- Old English · inherited fromoferdrincan“to overdrink”
- Middle English · inherited from*overdrinken
- English todayoverdrink
From Middle English *overdrinken (attested only as a noun overdrink (“excessive drinking”)), from Old English oferdrincan (“to overdrink”), equivalent to over- + drink. Compare German übertrinken (“to overdrink”), Swedish överdrycka (“to overdrink”), Old English oferdrynċ (“excessive drinking, drunkenness”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.