fördriva
Swedish
/fœ(r)ˈɖriːva/
verb-irr
Definitions
- (transitive) drive away, force to leave
- (transitive) kill
Etymology
Derived from Old Swedish fordriva derived from Middle Low German vordriven derived from Old Saxon fardrīvan derived from *fradrīban prefix from Swedish driva (force, power, drive, push, drift).
Origin
Swedish
driva
Gloss
force, power, drive, push, drift
Concept
Semantic Field
Social and political relations
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
力
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- drive English
- fordrive English
- Vertreibung German
- treiben German
- vertreiben German
- drive Norwegian Bokmål
- fordrive Norwegian Bokmål
- *fradrībaną Proto-Germanic
- bedriva Swedish
- driva Swedish
- indriva Swedish
- överdriva Swedish
- fordrive Norwegian Nynorsk
- fordrīfan Old English
- fordriven Middle English
- vertriben Middle High German
- *fradrīban gmw-pro
- vordriven Middle Low German
- fardrīvan Old Saxon
- fordriva Old Swedish