"drighten" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈdɹaɪ.tən/ Forms: drightens [plural]
Rhymes: -aɪtən Etymology: From Middle English drihten, from Old English dryhten (“a ruler, king, lord, prince, the supreme ruler, the Lord, God, Christ”), from Proto-Germanic *druhtinaz (“leader, chief, lord”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrewgʰ- (“to hold, hold fast, support”), equivalent to dright (“army, host”) + -en. Cognate with Scots drichtin, drichtine (“lord, the Lord”), and with Old Frisian drochten (“lord”), Old Saxon drohtin (“lord”), Old High German truhtin, Middle High German truhten, trohten (“ruler, lord”) (dialectal German Trechtin, Trechtein (“lord, God”)), Danish drot (“king”), Swedish drott (“king, ruler, sovereign”), Icelandic dróttinn (“hero, ruler, lord”), Finnish ruhtinas (“sovereign prince”). Related also to Old English dryht (“a multitude, an army, company, body of retainers, nation, a people, men”), Old English ġedryht (“fortune, fate”), Old English drēogan (“to serve in the military, endure”). More at dree. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*dʰrewgʰ-|id=serve}}, {{inh|en|enm|drihten}} Middle English drihten, {{inh|en|ang|dryhten|t=a ruler, king, lord, prince, the supreme ruler, the Lord, God, Christ}} Old English dryhten (“a ruler, king, lord, prince, the supreme ruler, the Lord, God, Christ”), {{inh|en|gem-pro|*druhtinaz|t=leader, chief, lord}} Proto-Germanic *druhtinaz (“leader, chief, lord”), {{der|en|ine-pro|*dʰrewgʰ-|t=to hold, hold fast, support}} Proto-Indo-European *dʰrewgʰ- (“to hold, hold fast, support”), {{af|en|dright|-en|t1=army, host}} dright (“army, host”) + -en, {{cog|sco|drichtin}} Scots drichtin, {{cog|ofs|drochten||lord}} Old Frisian drochten (“lord”), {{cog|osx|drohtin|t=lord}} Old Saxon drohtin (“lord”), {{cog|goh|truhtin}} Old High German truhtin, {{cog|gmh|truhten}} Middle High German truhten, {{cog|de|Trechtin}} German Trechtin, {{cog|da|drot|t=king}} Danish drot (“king”), {{cog|sv|drott|t=king, ruler, sovereign}} Swedish drott (“king, ruler, sovereign”), {{cog|is|dróttinn||hero, ruler, lord}} Icelandic dróttinn (“hero, ruler, lord”), {{cog|fi|ruhtinas||sovereign prince}} Finnish ruhtinas (“sovereign prince”), {{cog|ang|dryht|t=a multitude, an army, company, body of retainers, nation, a people, men}} Old English dryht (“a multitude, an army, company, body of retainers, nation, a people, men”), {{cog|ang|ġedryht|t=fortune, fate}} Old English ġedryht (“fortune, fate”), {{cog|ang|drēogan|t=to serve in the military, endure}} Old English drēogan (“to serve in the military, endure”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} drighten (plural drightens)
  1. (historical, Anglo-Saxon, Norse mythology, fantasy, paganism) A lord; ruler; sovereign; chief; leader; prince. Tags: Norse, historical Categories (topical): Fantasy, Mythology, Paganism
    Sense id: en-drighten-en-noun-nzTVikju Topics: fantasy, human-sciences, lifestyle, mysticism, mythology, paganism, philosophy, religion, sciences
  2. (obsolete, often capitalized) The Lord; Lord God; Christ. Tags: capitalized, obsolete, often
    Sense id: en-drighten-en-noun--uQm70eZ Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -en, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 21 79 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -en: 14 86 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 13 87 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 5 95
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: dright, drightin [Scotland], Drighten

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (d8cb2f3 and 4e554ae). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.