drepen

From Middle Low German drēpen, from Old Saxon drepan, from Proto-West Germanic *drepan, from Proto-Germanic *drepaną. Doublet of drapen.

drepen (third-person singular simple present drippt, past tense dreep, past participle drepen, auxiliary verb hebben)

1. (transitive or reflexive) to meet; to encounter
2. (transitive or intransitive) to hit; to strike
3. (transitive) to affect; to concern
4. (intransitive or reflexive, colloquial, often with “goot” or “slecht”) to hit the mark; to suit; to be convenient, fortunate

   Dat drippt sick egentlig goot. ― That’s good actually.

From Old Dutch *drepan, from Proto-Germanic *drepaną.

drēpen

1. (rare) to hit (not miss), to strike

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

• Limburgish: draepe

• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “drepen”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN

From Old English drepan, from Proto-West Germanic *drepan, from Proto-Germanic *drepaną.

• drepe, drep

• (unlengthened) IPA^(key): /ˈdrɛpən/
• IPA^(key): /ˈdrɛːpən/, /ˈdræːpən/

drepen

2. To kill, slay
3. To strike, hit
4. (rare) To overcome, vanquish
   • p. 1154, “AD 1137”, in Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (MS. Laud Misc. 636, continuation), Peterborough, folio 89, verso; republished at Oxford: Digital Bodleian, 2018 February 8:

     Mani þusen hi drapen mid hungær.

     Many thousands they overcame with hunger.

• Weak forms are usual for this verb after 1400; they are unknown before then.

• >? English: drib, drub
• >? Scots: drib, drub

• “drēpen, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

From Old English drēopan, from Proto-West Germanic *dreupan, from Proto-Germanic *dreupaną.

• drepe

• IPA^(key): /ˈdreːpən/

drepen

2. To drip, spatter
3. To droop, lower

• Scots: dreep
  • → English: dreep

• “drēpen, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

From Old Saxon driopan (“to drip”). Cognate with Old English dreopan, Dutch druipen and German triefen.

• Stem vowel: e⁴
  • (originally) IPA^(key): /dreːpən/

drêpen

1. to drip

• IPA^(key): /ˈdre.pen/

drepen

1. past participle of drepan