From Middle High German drīben, from Old High German (*)drīvan, northern variant of trīban, from Proto-West Germanic *drīban.
Cognate with German treiben, English drive, Dutch drijven, Icelandic drífa.
dreiwen (third-person singular present dreift, past participle gedriwwen, auxiliary verb hunn)
| Regular | ||
|---|---|---|
| infinitive | dreiwen | |
| participle | gedriwwen | |
| auxiliary | hunn | |
| present indicative |
imperative | |
| 1st singular | dreiwen | — |
| 2nd singular | dreifs | dreif |
| 3rd singular | dreift | — |
| 1st plural | dreiwen | — |
| 2nd plural | dreift | dreift |
| 3rd plural | dreiwen | — |
| (n) or (nn) indicates the Eifeler Regel. | ||