dre

See also: DRE, Dre, drę, dře, and Dre.

Albanian

Alternative forms
  • (Tosk):
    • singular: drë (Arbëreshë), ndre (South Tosk, Arbëreshë)
    • plural: drenjtë (definite)
  • (Gheg):
    • singular: drê
    • plural: drenë, drêna, drenj (indefinite)

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *drani, related to Illyrian *drenis ("deer"), identical to Hesychian ἀρανίς (aranís) (misspelling of δρανίς (dranís, “deer”)), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrēn- (“drone, buzz”).[1] Compare English drone, Ancient Greek θρήνος (thrḗnos, “lament”)).[2]

Noun

dre m (plural drerë, definite dreri, definite plural drerët)

  1. deer

Declension
Declension of dre
indefinite definite
singular plural singular plural
nominative dre drerë dreri drerët
accusative drerin
dative dreri drerëve drerit drerëvet
ablative drerësh

Derived terms

See also

References
  1. Mallory, J. P., Adams, D. Q., editors (1997), Encyclopedia of Indo-European culture, London, Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, page 395
  2. Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “dre”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, pages 72-3

Cornish

Alternative forms
  • der (used before vowels)

Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *truɨ, from Proto-Celtic *trē, from Proto-Indo-European *terh₂-.

Preposition

dre (triggers soft mutation)

  1. through, via
  2. by means of

Slovene

Verb

dre

  1. third-person singular present of dreti

Welsh

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /dreː/

Noun

dre f

  1. Soft mutation of tre.

Mutation
Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
tre dre nhre thre
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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