draca
Old English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *drakō.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈdrɑ.kɑ/
Noun
draca m
- dragon
- Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church
- Æfter þyssere sprǣċe cōmon ðā drȳmen, and hæfdon him mid tweġen ormǣte dracan, ðǣra orðung ācwealde þæt earme mennisċ: ac sē apostol Matheus þā dracan ġeswefode, and siððan of ðām lande adrǣfde, swā þæt hī næfre siððan þǣr ġesewene nǣron.
- After this speech came the sorcerers, who had two enormous dragons which them, whose breath killed that poor man: but the apostle Matthew lulled the dragons to sleep, and then drove them from the land, so that they have never been seen there since.
- Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church
Declension
Weak:
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | draca | dracan |
| accusative | dracan | dracan |
| genitive | dracan | dracena |
| dative | dracan | dracum |
Derived terms
Descendants
- Middle English: drake
- English: drake
- → Old West Norse: dreki[1][2][3] (via* dræce; or ← Old Saxon/Middle Low German)[2][3]
References
- ^ Fischer, Frank (1909) “6: Englisch-lateinische Lehnwörter”, in Die Lehnwörter des Altwestnordischen[1] (in German), Berlin: Mayer & Müller, page 47: “dreki m., 'Drache’ : ae. draca (oder ir. drac Indfl. S. 202), l. draco.”
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Philippa, Marlies, Debrabandere, Frans, Quak, Arend, Schoonheim, Tanneke, van der Sijs, Nicoline (2003–2009) “draak”, in Etymologisch woordenboek van het Nederlands[2] (in Dutch), Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press: “on. dreki ‘draak; vikingschip’ (< oe. of mnd.)”
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 de Vries, Jan (1971) “draak”, in Nederlands etymologisch woordenboek [Dutch etymological dictionary] (in Dutch), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN: “on. dreki is uit het oe. of uit het mnd. ontleend”