drift
Danish
/dreft/
noun
Definitions
- (uncountable) operation, running of a company, a service or a mashine
- (uncountable) service of public transport
- (psychology) drive, urge, desire
- (uncountable) drift slow movement in the water or the air
- drove driven animals
Etymology
Inherited from Old Norse drift inherited from Proto-Germanic *driftiz (drift).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*driftiz
Gloss
drift
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- adrift English
- bedrift English
- downdrift English
- drift English
- driftage English
- driftbolt English
- drifter English
- driftest English
- drifteth English
- driftfish English
- driftland English
- driftless English
- driftling English
- driftpin English
- driftway English
- driftweed English
- driftwind English
- driftwood English
- drifty English
- exodrift English
- indrift English
- mid-drift English
- overdrift English
- raindrift English
- snowdrift English
- stardrift English
- underdrift English
- updrift English
- Schaftrift German
- Trift German
- Trifteis German
- aandrift Dutch, Flemish
- drift Dutch, Flemish
- driftbui Dutch, Flemish
- driftig Dutch, Flemish
- driftkikker Dutch, Flemish
- geestdrift Dutch, Flemish
- sneeuwdrift Dutch, Flemish
- *dʰreybʰ- Proto-Indo-European
- drift Norwegian Bokmål
- *driftiz Proto-Germanic
- drift Swedish
- hyperdrift Swedish
- överdrift Swedish
- drift Norwegian Nynorsk
- *drift Old English
- drift Middle English
- drift Old Norse
- dript Old Norse
- mine Danish
- minedrift Danish
- drift Middle Dutch
- drif Afrikaans
- trift Middle High German
- *drift Old Dutch
- dripman Tok Pisin