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Etymology

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From Old Norse dreyri, from Proto-Germanic *drauzijô. Cognate with Old Saxon drōr, Old High German trōr and Old English dreor. The historical sense is of something which ‘falls’: the Germanic base is also the source of Old English drēosan (fall).

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Noun

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dreyri m (genitive singular dreyra, no plural)

  1. (archaic or poetic) blood flowing from a wound

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