dri

See also: DRI, D.R.I., drì, dři, and dʳi

Dalmatian

Etymology

From Latin dē retrō. Compare Italian dietro, French derrière, and Venetian drio.

Preposition

dri

behind

Adverb

dri

behind
back

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *thrī, from Proto-Germanic *þrīz.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /driː/

Numeral

dri

(Brabant) Alternative form of drie

Descendants

Dutch: drij (southern, dialectal)

Middle English

Adjective

dri

Alternative form of drye

Old High German

**Old High German cardinal numbers**
< 2	3	4 >
Cardinal : dri Ordinal : dritto

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *þrīʀ, from Proto-Germanic *þrīz, whence also Old Saxon thrīe, Old English þrī, Old Norse þrír. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes.

Numeral

dri

three

Descendants

Middle High German: drī
- Alemannic German: drüü, drü
- Bavarian: drei
  Cimbrian: drai
  
  Mòcheno: drai
- Central Franconian: drei, dreij
  Hunsrik: drei
- East Central German:
  Upper Saxon German: dreie
- German: drei
- Luxembourgish: dräi
- Rhine Franconian:
  Pennsylvania German: drei
- Vilamovian: draj
- Yiddish: דרײַ (dray)

Slovene

Verb

dri

second-person singular imperative of dreti

Sranan Tongo

Etymology

Borrowed Dutch drie or from English three.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /dri/

Numeral

dri

three

Welsh

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /driː/

Numeral

dri

Soft mutation of tri.

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
tri	dri	nhri	thri
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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