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Probably partly borrowed from Scots dree,[1] and partly derived from its etymon Middle English dreen, dreghen, dreogen, drien,[2] from Old English drēogan, from Proto-West Germanic *dreugan, from Proto-Germanic *dreuganą (“to act; to work, (specifically) to do military service”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrewgʰ- (“to hold fast”).[3] Doublet of dreich, dright, and drighten.

Cognates

dree (third-person singular simple present drees, present participle dreeing, simple past and past participle dreed) (chiefly Northern England, Scotland)

  1. (transitive) To bear or endure (something); to put up with, to suffer, to undergo.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:tolerate

    • 1826, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, The Literary Gazette, 16th September: The Frozen Ship:

      Peace to the souls of the graveless dead! / 'Twas an awful doom to dree; / But fearful and wondrous are thy works, / O God! in the boundless sea!

  2. (intransitive) To endure; to brook; also, to be able to do or continue.

Probably partly:

Doublet of dreich.

dree (plural drees)

  1. (chiefly Northumbria, Scotland, archaic) Grief; suffering; trouble.

From dreich (adjective).

dree (comparative more dree, superlative most dree)

  1. (Northeast Midlands, Northern England)
    1. Of the doing of a task: with concentration; laboriously.
    2. Chiefly of the falling of rain: without pause or stop; continuously, incessantly.
  2. (Lancashire, Scotland) Slowly, tediously.

See dreich.

dree (comparative dreer, superlative dreest)

  1. Alternative form of dreich
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 “dree, v.1, n.1”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.
  2. ^ “drīen, v.(2)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
  3. ^ Compare “dree, v.”, in OED Online Paid subscription required⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, December 2023; “dree, v.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
  4. ^ “dree, n.”, in OED Online Paid subscription required⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, July 2023.
  5. ^ “drī(e, n.(2)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
  6. ^ “drī(e, adj.(2)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
  7. ^ “dreich, adj.”, in OED Online Paid subscription required⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, September 2023; “dreich, adj.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
German Low German cardinal numbers
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    Cardinal : dree
    Ordinal : drütt

From Middle Low German drê, drî, drie, from Old Saxon thrie.

dree

  1. three

Cardinal numbers from 0 to 99

Cardinal numbers from 100 onward

dree

  1. second-person singular imperative of dreeën

From Middle Low German drê, drî, drie, from Old Saxon thrie.

dree

  1. three

From Old English drēogan, from Proto-West Germanic *dreugan, from Proto-Germanic *dreuganą.

dree (third-person singular simple present drees, present participle dreein, simple past dreed, past participle dreed)

  1. to endure, suffer, put up with, undergo

dree

  1. Alternative form of dhree

    • 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY:

  • 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 33