adv.
'forcibly'
(Modern English dree, dreigh)Formed on dryʒe.
PGmc Ancestor
*dreug-
Proposed ON Etymon (OIcel representative)
drjúgr 'abundant, sufficient, lasting; supportive staunch, persistent (etc.)'
(ONP drjúgr (adj.))
Other Scandinavian Reflexes
Far dr(j)úgvur, Icel drjúgur, Norw drjug, Sw dryg
OE Cognate
gedrēog ‘quiet, calm, sobre; fit, suitable’
Phonological and morphological markers
Summary category
CC3ac
(CC1a)
Otherwise recorded by MED only in c1330(?a1300) Tristrem (Auch) and c1475 Awntyrs Arth.(Tay 9).
Occurrences in the Gersum Corpus
Gaw 2263
On the sense at Gaw 2263, see Emerson (1922: 405-6),who prefers ‘enduringly, continuously’; PS gloss ‘unswervingly, straight’.