Cognate Set 204 – Meaning: drink

IE-CoR reference form:
*drinkan-
IE-CoR reference language:
Proto-Germanic
Ideophonic:
no
Parallel derivation:
no
Justification:
Lexemes continuing Proto-Germanic *drinkan- 'to drink'. Further etymology uncertain; a proposal to connect it with Lithuanian drė́gti 'to become moist, to thaw' to a basic root *dʰreg- (Kroonen 2013:103) has not been widely accepted (Seebold 1970:165-166, Lehmann 1986:94-95, ALEW 226-227).
Found in clades:
Germanic
Revised by:
Matthew Scarborough
Found in 1 clade by 23 lexemes.
Language Lexeme Native script Phonetic Phonemic Notes
108   Danish drikke ˈdʁɛɡə
114   Dutch drinken ˈdrɪŋkə(n)
110   English drink dɹɪŋk Middle English drinken, Old English drincan
102   Faroese drekka ˈd̥rɛʰkːa
115   Flemish drinken
120   German trinken ˈtʁ̥ɪŋkŋ̍ ˈtʁɪŋkən
101   Icelandic drekka ˈd̥rɛʰkːa
103   Norwegian: Bokmål drikke ˈdɾɪ̀kːə dɾɪ̀kːɛ
107   Swedish dricka ˈdrɪ̀kːa
119   Luxembourgish drénken ˈdʀɜɪŋkən ˈdʀɜɪŋkən
105   Elfdalian drikka ˈdrɪ̀kːɑ ˈdrɪ̀kːɑ
106   Old Swedish drikka ˈdrikːa drikːa
112   Frisian drinke ˈdrɪŋkə
121   German: Bernese trinke trɪŋkxə trɪŋkxə
117   Old High German trinkan ˈtrinkan ˈtrinkan
111   Old Frisian drinka ˈdriŋka ˈdrinka
118   Middle High German trinken ˈtrinkən ˈtrinkən
109   Old English drincan ˈdriŋkɑn ˈdrinkɑn
116   Old Saxon drinkan ˈdriŋkan ˈdrinkan
113   Middle Dutch drinken ˈdriŋkən ˈdrinkən
100   Old Icelandic drekka ˈdrekːa ˈdrekːa
99   Gothic drigkan 𐌳𐍂𐌹𐌲𐌺𐌰𐌽 ˈdriŋkan ˈdrinkan
104   Norwegian: Nynorsk drikke ˈdʁɪkːə ˈdʁɪkːɛ
References
  • Hock, Wolfgang and Fecht, Rainer and Feulner, Anna Helene and Hill, Eugen and Wodtko, Dagmar S.: 226-27
    Cf. s.v. Lith. drė́gti 'to become moist, to thaw', to be interpreted as a denominal verb, the basis of which is not found in Lithuanian, but in Latvian drē̡gs m. 'thawing, muddy weather'. The latter seems to originate from a Vṛiddhi-derivation of pre-Proto-Balto-Slavic *dʰréh₁gʰo-, cf. PIE *dʰroh₁gʰ-/*dʰr̥h₁gʰ- 'deposit, yeast'.
  • Kroonen, Guus: 103
    S.v. Proto-Germanic *drinkan 'to drink'. The Germanic verb contains a nasalized variant of the root *dʰreg- as found in Baltic, cf. Lith. *drė́gti 'to become moist'.
  • Lehmann, Winfred P.: 94-95
    S.v. Gothic D33 drigkan. No accepted etymology. Possibly from PIE *dʰerH-gʰ- (cf. Lith. dìrgti, drė́gti 'become damp, etc.) or from PIE *dʰreg̑- 'move, glide' (cf. Skt. dhrájati 'glide', Lith. drė́zti 'tear', Latv. dragât 'pull'), alternatively borrowed from a pre-Germanic source, but this conjecture is unverifiable.
  • Seebold, Elmar: 165-166
    S.v. Gmc. *drenk-a- 'trinken', no certain etymology outside of Germanic.