dries

• Rhymes: -aɪz

dries

1. plural of dry

dries

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of dry

• Desir, IDers, diers, rides, rised, sider, sired

From Middle Dutch driesch (“fallow”). Cognate with German Driesch. More distantly related to Latin terere (“rub”), Russian тереть (teretʹ, “rub”).

• IPA^(key): /dris/

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• Hyphenation: dries
• Rhymes: -is

dries m (plural driezen)

1. fallow, fallow land

• (fallow): braakland, valg, valgeland

• drîs, drîens
• dreyens (after diphthongization, also reaching into Early New High German)

drîes

1. thrice