tug”). The long grade in <span class="searchmatch">Slavic</span> is likely due to Winter's law. Per Vasmer, Russian "soft" vocalism is of expressive origin. *<span class="searchmatch">drabъ</span> m staircase (of а ladder)...
Most likely from <span class="searchmatch">Proto</span>-<span class="searchmatch">Slavic</span> *drapъ (“scratch, trail”)/<span class="searchmatch">Proto</span>-<span class="searchmatch">Slavic</span> *<span class="searchmatch">drabъ</span> (“spike; grazed cloth, rag”) + *-skati, ultimately from <span class="searchmatch">Proto</span>-Indo-European *derH-...
with <span class="searchmatch">Proto</span>-<span class="searchmatch">Slavic</span> *<span class="searchmatch">drabъ</span> (“clothes”) is phonetically impossible by regular application of sound laws. *trabō f fringe (decorative border) <span class="searchmatch">Proto</span>-West Germanic:...
*dьrati (“to tear”) *<span class="searchmatch">drabъ</span> (“stair, spike”) *drapati (“to scratch, to scrabble”) *drasta (“track, trail, notch”) East <span class="searchmatch">Slavic</span>: Russian: дразга (drazga...
(“clothes, clothing”). Possibly related to West <span class="searchmatch">Slavic</span> *<span class="searchmatch">drabъ</span> (“clothing”). Alternatively, from <span class="searchmatch">Proto</span>-<span class="searchmatch">Slavic</span> *derti (“to tear”), cognate with Ancient Greek...
*drapati, *drapa, *drapajetь (impf., -a-, s-aorist, accent paradigm ?) *<span class="searchmatch">drabъ</span> (“stair, spike”) *dьrpati (“to pull, to stretch”) *drasati (“to rip apart”)...