drieve

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Central Franconian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle High German drīven, from Old High German *drīvan, northern variant of trīban, from Proto-West Germanic *drīban.

Pronunciation

Verb

drieve (third-person singular present driev, past tense drevv, past participle jedrevve)

  1. (Ripuarian, transitive) to drive; to push; to chase (cause to go somewhere or to do something)
    Driev dat Mädche net su! Wann et net met well, bliet et evvens do.
    Don’t push the girl like this! If she doesn’t want to come along, she’ll stay here.
  2. (Ripuarian, intransitive) to float
    Do driev ene dude Fesch em Waßer.
    There’s a dead fish floating in the water.

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Verb

drieve

  1. Alternative form of dhreeve
    • 1867, “JAMEEN QOUGEELY EE-PEALTHE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 110, lines 7-8:
      'choo'd drieve aam aul awye to Kie o' Cress Farnogue, an maake aam cry, 'Rotheda Palloake !' "
      I would drive them all away to the quay of Cross Farnogue, and make them cry, 'Rotten Palluck !' "

References

  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 110
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