drie

drie

1. Archaic spelling of dry.

• Deri, Dier, IDer, Reid, dier, dire, ired, ride

• IPA^(key): /dri/

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From Dutch drie, from Middle Dutch dri, drie, from Old Dutch *thrie, from Proto-Germanic *þrīz, from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes.

drie

1. three

Borrowed from English try.

drie (plural [please provide])

1. (rugby) try

• drij (rare, in dialectal Belgian Dutch)

From Middle Dutch drie, from Old Dutch thrie, from Proto-West Germanic *þrīʀ, from Proto-Germanic *þrīz, from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes.

• IPA^(key): /dri/

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• Hyphenation: drie
• Rhymes: -i
• Homophone: Drie

drie

1. three

   Hier komen drie wegen samen. ― Three roads meet here.

   De genodigden arriveerden iets voor drieën. ― The invitees arrived just before three [o' clock].

   Ze gingen met zijn drieën naar de supermarkt. ― The three of them went to the supermarket.

• Afrikaans: drie
• Berbice Creole Dutch: dri
• Jersey Dutch: drî
• Negerhollands: drie, dri
• Skepi Creole Dutch: dri
• Sranan Tongo: dri
  • Aukan: dii
  • Saramaccan: dií
• → Trió: tëri_me

• Matthias de Vries, Lambert Allard te Winkel (1864) “drie”, in Woordenboek der Nederlandsche Taal, published 2001
• van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “drie”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute

• dier
• ried

• drij

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

drie

1. three

From Old Dutch thrīe, from Proto-West Germanic *þrīʀ, from Proto-Germanic *þrīz.

• IPA^(key): /driə/

drie

1. three

• dri

• Dutch: drie
• Limburgish: drèè
• Zealandic: drie

• “drie”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “drie”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN

drie

1. alternative form of drye

From Middle Dutch drie, from Old Dutch *thrie, from Proto-West Germanic *þrīʀ, from Proto-Germanic *þrīz, from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes.

drie

1. three