"druggen" meaning in Middle English

See druggen in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

IPA: /ˈdrud͡ʒən/
Etymology: Uncertain; perhaps from Old English *dryċġan, from Proto-West Germanic *druggjan, from Proto-Germanic *drugjaną, a denominative built to a lost noun *drugjaz (preserved in Old English Dryċġhelm), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrewgʰ-; compare Proto-Germanic *dreuganą (“to serve”). Etymology templates: {{unc|enm}} Uncertain, {{inh|enm|ang||*dryċġan}} Old English *dryċġan, {{inh|enm|gmw-pro||*druggjan}} Proto-West Germanic *druggjan, {{inh|enm|gem-pro||*drugjaną}} Proto-Germanic *drugjaną, {{m+|ang|Dryċġhelm}} Old English Dryċġhelm, {{der|enm|ine-pro|*dʰrewgʰ-}} Proto-Indo-European *dʰrewgʰ-, {{cog|gem-pro|*dreuganą|id=to serve|t=to serve}} Proto-Germanic *dreuganą (“to serve”) Head templates: {{head|enm|verb|head=}} druggen, {{enm-verb|stem=drugg}} druggen (third-person singular simple present druggeth, present participle druggende, druggynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle drugged) Inflection templates: {{enm-conj-wk|drugg}} Forms: druggeth [present, singular, third-person], druggende [participle, present], druggynge [participle, present], drugged [first-person, indicative, participle, past, singular, third-person], weak [table-tags], druggen [infinitive], to druggen [infinitive], drugge [infinitive], drugge [first-person, present, singular], drugged [first-person, past, singular], druggede [first-person, past, singular], druggest [present, second-person, singular], druggedest [past, second-person, singular], druggeth [present, singular, third-person], drugged [past, singular, third-person], druggede [past, singular, third-person], drugge [present, singular, subjunctive], drugged [past, singular, subjunctive], druggede [past, singular, subjunctive], drugge [imperative, present, singular], - [imperative, past, singular], druggen [plural, present], drugge [plural, present], druggeden [past, plural], drugged [past, plural], druggede [past, plural], druggeth [imperative, plural, present], drugge [imperative, plural, present], - [imperative, past, plural], druggynge [participle, present], druggende [participle, present], drugged [participle, past], ydrugged [participle, past], drugge [alternative]
  1. (rare) To drudge; to perform menial labour. Tags: rare
    Sense id: en-druggen-enm-verb-nrMg2b73 Categories (other): Middle English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Alternative forms

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        "infinitive"
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        "singular"
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        "second-person",
        "singular"
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        "singular"
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        "subjunctive"
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      "source": "conjugation",
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        "present",
        "singular"
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        "past",
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      "source": "conjugation",
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        "To drudge; to perform menial labour."
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        "To drudge; to perform menial labour."
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        "(rare) To drudge; to perform menial labour."
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      "ipa": "/ˈdrud͡ʒən/"
    }
  ],
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}

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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.