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Proto-Germanic
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *dʰrebʰ- (“to grind; crush; kill”). Cognate with Proto-Slavic *drobìti (“to crush”), Lithuanian drė̃bti (“to strike”), and Latvian drêbt (“to beat”).[1]
Pronunciation
Verb
*drabaną[1][2]
- to hit, hew
Inflection
Conjugation of
*drabaną (strong class 6)
Descendants
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Guus Kroonen (2013) “*draban-”, in Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 98
- ^ Seebold, Elmar (1970) “DRAB*-A-”, in Vergleichendes und etymologisches Wörterbuch der germanischen starken Verben (Janua Linguarum. Series practica; 85) (in German), Paris, Den Haag: Mouton, →ISBN, page 160