different between drake vs wyrm

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?e?k/
• Rhymes: -e?k

Etymology 1

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 *anadrek? (“duck leader”). Cognate with Low German drake (“drake”), Dutch draak (“drake”), German Enterich (“drake”). More at ennet.

Noun

drake (plural drakes)

1. A male duck.

Derived terms

• duck on drake
• ducks and drakes
• sheldrake

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English drake (“dragon; Satan”), from Old English draca (“dragon, sea monster, huge serpent”), from Proto-West Germanic *drak? (“dragon”), from Latin drac? (“dragon”), from Ancient Greek ?????? (drák?n, “serpent, giant seafish”), from ???????? (dérkomai, “I see clearly”), from Proto-Indo-European *der?-. Compare Middle Dutch drake and German Drache.

Noun

drake (plural drakes)

1. A mayfly used as fishing bait.
2. (poetic) A dragon.
   • 2016, Anthony Ryan, The Waking Fire: Book One of Draconis Memoria

     Clay caught sight of the drake's wing outlined against the rising flames as it swept low over the desert.

3. (historical) A small piece of artillery.
4. A fiery meteor.
   • c. 1620,, anonymous, “Tom o’ Bedlam’s Song” in Giles Earle his Booke (British Museum, Additional MSS. 24, 665):

     The moon’s my constant Mistresse
     & the lowlie owle my morrowe.
     The flaming Drake and y? Nightcrowe make
     mee musicke to my sorrowe.

5. A beaked galley, or Viking warship.

Synonyms

• (mayfly): drake fly

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• drake on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Daker, Darke, E.D. Ark., Radke, daker, darke, raked

Afrikaans

Noun

drake

1. plural of draak

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *drako, an early Germanic borrowing of Latin drac? (“dragon”).

Noun

dr?ke m

1. dragon, wyrm

Inflection

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Descendants

• Dutch: draak
  • Afrikaans: draak
• Limburgish: draagk, draogk

Further reading

• “drake”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “drake”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• drage

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????? (drák?n) and Old Norse dreki.

Noun

drake m (definite singular draken, indefinite plural draker, definite plural drakene)

1. a dragon
2. a kite

References

• “drake” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse dreki, from Ancient Greek ?????? (drák?n).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²dr??k?/

Noun

drake m (definite singular draken, indefinite plural drakar, definite plural drakane)

1. a dragon
2. a kite
3. a type of longship decorated with a dragon's head

References

• “drake” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish draki, from Old Norse dreki, borrowed from Middle Low German drake, from Proto-West Germanic *drak?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?dr???k?/

Noun

drake c

1. dragon
2. kite
3. a male duck, drake
4. a belligerent (older) woman; battle-ax

Declension

Anagrams

• kader

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Old English wyrm. Doublet of worm, which was inherited.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /w??m/
• (US) enPR: wûrm, IPA^(key): /w?m/

Noun

wyrm (plural wyrms)

1. (mythology, fantasy) A huge limbless and wingless dragon or dragon-like creature.
2. A sea serpent.

See also

• Jörmungandr
• sea serpent
• worm

Middle English

Noun

wyrm

1. Alternative form of worm

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *wurmiz, from Proto-Indo-European *wr?mis. Cognate with Old Frisian wirm, Old Saxon wurm (Dutch worm), Old High German wurm (German Wurm), Old Norse ormr (Swedish orm (“serpent”)), Gothic ???????????????????????? (waurms, “worm, serpent”). The Indo-European root is also the source of Latin vermis (“worm”), Lithuanian varmas (“midge”), Old East Slavic ?????? (vermie, “locusts, worms”), Ancient Greek ????? (rhómos, “earthworm”) (originally *?????? (wrámos)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wyrm/, [wyr?m]

Noun

wyrm m (plural wyrmas)

1. creeping insect; maggot, grub, worm
2. snake, dragon

Declension

Derived terms

Descendants

• Middle English: worm, werm, wirm, wurm, wyrm, wyrme, wrim, worme
  • English: worm
  • Scots: worm, wirm
• ? English: wyrm

References

• On-line Anglo-Saxon dictionary
• The Western Dragon