todrive

English

Etymology

From Middle English todriven, from Old English tōdrīfan (“to drive away, repel”), from Proto-Germanic *tōdrībaną (“to drive apart”), equivalent to to- +‎ drive. Cognate with Old Frisian todrīva, Middle High German zetrīben (“to drive asunder”).

Verb

todrive (third-person singular simple present todrives, present participle todriving, simple past todrove, past participle todriven)

  1. (transitive, intransitive, obsolete) To scatter.
    • 1895, Eiríkr Magnússon, William Morris, The Saga Library:
      Swift was the flight todriven; The Hord lord singed houses.
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.