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dreyri.

blood flowing from a wound

6 characters2 syllables approx.Íslenska language

Meaning & usage

noun[ˈtreiːrɪ]
  1. blood flowing from a wound

    archaic · masculine · no-plural · poetic
Where this word comes from

From Old Norse dreyri, from Proto-Germanic *drauzijô. Cognate with Old Saxon drōr, Old High German trōr and Old English dreor. The historical sense is of something which ‘falls’: the Germanic base is also the source of Old English drēosan (“fall”), English dreary.

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