Old English · noun

dreor

Normalised drēor

Part of speech: noun, masculine
Declension: strong a-stem
IPA: /dre͜oːr/
Syllables: dre͜oːr (1 syllable)
Modern English: gore blood

Meaning

gore, blood

Iċ his blōd āġēat, drēor on eorðan.

I spilled his blood, his gore on the earth.

Declension

Declension of dreor
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	drēor	drēoras
Accusative	drēor	drēoras
Genitive	drēores	drēora
Dative	drēore	drēorum

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *dreuzaz, *drauziz, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrews- (“to break, break off, crumble”). Cognate with Old Saxon drōr, Old High German trōr, and Old Norse and Icelandic dreyri. The historical sense is of something which ‘falls’: the Germanic base is also the source of Old English drēosan (“fall”).

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