adv.
Cl dryʒly; Pat dryʒlych
‘unceasingly, strongly, utterly, gravely’ (Modern English dreely, dreighly)
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)
Predominantly N and alliterative (with the exception of Lydgate).
Occurrences in the Gersum Corpus
Gaw 1026; Pe 125, 223; Cl 74, 344, 476; Pat 235
On the sense at Gaw 1026, see Wright (1906: 212), who argues for ‘incessantly’ (against Morris’s ‘vigorously’).