drawk
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Middle English drauke.[1] Possibly from Welsh drewg (“darnel”), through Gaulish drāyāka or Latin dravoca.[2]
Noun edit
drawk (uncountable)
- (archaic) Ryegrass, darnel, cockle, tare, or wild oats.[3][4]
- (archaic) Grass growing as a weed among corn.[2]
Etymology 2 edit
From Middle Scots drawken, perhaps akin to Old Norse drukna.[5]
Verb edit
drawk (third-person singular simple present drawks, present participle drawking, simple past and past participle drawked)
References edit
- ^ drauk and drauke - Middle English Compendium[1], 2018, retrieved 2020-03-04
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Zair, Nicholas (2012 August 22) The Reflexes of the Proto-Indo-European Laryngeals in Celtic[2], BRILL, →ISBN, page 97
- ^ Dutt, William Alfred (1906) Wild Life in East Anglia[3], Methuen & Company
- ^ Journal of the Department of Agriculture of Western Australia[4], Department of Agriculture., 1899
- ^ “drawk”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.