different between dreye vs dreve

Middle English

Adjective

dreye

1. Alternative form of drie

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English

Alternative forms

• drove

Etymology

From Middle English dreven (also droven), from Old English dr?fan, *dr?fian (“to trouble, vex, agitate, disturb the mind of”), from Proto-Germanic *dr?bijan? (“to disturb, excite, make muddy”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?reb?- (“to become thick or cloudy, curdle, ferment”). Cognate with Low German dröven, Dutch droeven (“to be sad, grieve”), German trüben (“to dull, dim, cloud, tarnish, trouble”), Swedish bedröva (“to grieve, sadden, distress”). Related to droff.

Verb

dreve (third-person singular simple present dreves, present participle dreving, simple past and past participle dreved)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To trouble; afflict; make anxious.

Anagrams

• Dever, Verde

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -e?v?

Verb

dreve

1. (archaic) singular past subjunctive of drijven

Anagrams

• veder, verde, vrede

Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?dreve]

Noun

dreve n

1. locative singular of drevo