drev
Swedish
noun
Definitions
- a drive (of hunters), a beat, a battue
- a media drive (journalists going like a drive of hunters after a game)
- (mechanics) a drive, a pinion
- tow, stuffing (around windows or in the threads of pipes)
- (mechanical engineering) sprocket
Etymology
Derived from Old Norse dreif derived from Proto-Germanic *draibō (a drive, drove, push, movement) derived from Proto-Indo-European *dʰreybʰ- (push, drive).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*dʰreybʰ-
Gloss
push, drive
Concept
Semantic Field
Motion
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- drove English
- drover English
- drovest English
- droveway English
- rive Finnish
- riverauta Finnish
- *dʰer- Proto-Indo-European
- *dʰreybʰ- Proto-Indo-European
- *draibijaną Proto-Germanic
- *draibō Proto-Germanic
- *driftiz Proto-Germanic
- *drībaną Proto-Germanic
- kuggdrev Swedish
- kugge Swedish
- drāf Old English
- drove Middle English
- dreif Old Norse
- drif Old Norse
- drev Danish