drot

See also: drót, drôt, and Drot

Champenois

Etymology

Inherited from Old French droit, from Late Latin drictus, from Vulgar Latin dīrēctus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dro/

Noun

drot m (plural drots)

  1. (Troyen, Langrois) right

Adjective

drot m (feminine drotye, plural drots)

  1. (Troyen, Langrois) right

Adverb

drot

  1. (Troyen) rightly; justly
  2. (Troyen) directly

References

  • Daunay, Jean (1998) Parlers de Champagne : Pour un classement thématique du vocabulaire des anciens parlers de Champagne (Aube - Marne - Haute-Marne)[1] (in French), Rumilly-lés-Vaudes
  • Baudoin, Alphonse (1885) Glossaire de la forêt de Clairvaux[2] (in French), Troyes

Danish

Etymology

From Old Danish drotten (later misinterpreted as the definite singular form), from Old Norse dróttinn, from Proto-Germanic *druhtinaz (leader, lord), cognate with Old English dryhten, Old High German truhtin. Derived from the noun *druhtiz (troop).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /drɔt/, [ˈd̥ʁʌd̥]

Noun

drot c (singular definite drotten, plural indefinite drotter)

  1. (historical, poetic) king
    Coordinate term: stormand

Declension

Declension of drot
common
gender
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative drot drotten drotter drotterne
genitive drots drottens drotters drotternes

References

Luxembourgish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dʀoːt/

Verb

drot

  1. inflection of droen:
    1. second-person plural present indicative
    2. second-person plural imperative

Romanian

Alternative forms

  • drod

Etymology

Borrowed from Hungarian drót.

Noun

drot n (plural droturi)

  1. wire

Declension

Declension of drot
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative drot drotul droturi droturile
genitive-dative drot drotului droturi droturilor
vocative drotule droturilor

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Draht.

Noun

drot m inan or m anim (Cyrillic spelling дрот)

  1. (inanimate) wire
  2. (colloquial, animate) a cop (police officer)