drake
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From Middle English drake (“male duck, drake”), from Old English *draca, abbreviated form for Old English *andraca (“male duck, drake”, literally “duck-king”), from Proto-West Germanic *anadrekō (“duck leader”). Cognate with Low German drake (“drake”), Dutch draak (“drake”), German Enterich (“drake”). More at annet.
drake (plural drakes)
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From Middle English drake (“dragon; Satan”), from Old English draca (“dragon, sea monster, huge serpent”), from Proto-West Germanic *drakō (“dragon”), from Latin dracō (“dragon”), from Ancient Greek δράκων (drákōn, “serpent, giant seafish”), from δέρκομαι (dérkomai, “I see clearly”). Compare Middle Dutch drake and German Drache. Doublet of dragon.
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drake
From Old Dutch *drako, an early Germanic borrowing of Latin dracō (“dragon”).
drāke m
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Inherited from Old English draca, aphetic form of *andraca, from Proto-West Germanic *anadrekō; compare ende (“duck”).
drake (plural drakes)
Inherited from Old English draca, from Proto-West Germanic *drakō, from Latin dracō, from Ancient Greek δράκων (drákōn). Doublet of dragoun.
drake (plural drakes or draken)
From Old Norse dreki and Middle Low German drake, from Proto-West Germanic *drakō.
drake m (definite singular draken, indefinite plural draker, definite plural drakene)
From Old Norse dreki and Middle Low German drake, from Proto-West Germanic *drakō.
drake m (definite singular draken, indefinite plural drakar, definite plural drakane)
From Old Swedish draki, borrowed from Middle Low German drake, from Proto-West Germanic *drakō.
drake c
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