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Icelandic
Etymology
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”), English dreary.
Pronunciation
Noun
dreyri m (genitive singular dreyra, no plural)
- (archaic or poetic) blood flowing from a wound
Declension
Declension of dreyri (sg-only masculine)
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