dry - Wiktionary

Rhymes: -aɪ Etymology 1 [edit] From Middle English drye, drie, dri, drige, dryge, drüȝe, Old English drȳġe (“ dry; parched, withered ”), from Proto-Germanic *drūgiz, *draugiz (“ dry, hard ”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰerǵʰ-(“ to strengthen; become hard

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