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drāna

Pronunciation: [drāːna]

“drāna” is a Latvian word. Its 3 meanings in English:

noun

  1. fabric (cloth, material made of fibers)
  2. piece of cloth, handkerchief
  3. clothes, garments

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *der-, *dr- (“to tear, rip, split”) (whence also dīrāt (“to skin, flay”)), with a suffix *-eh₂, yielding *dr-eh₂ > drā-, and another suffix, either *-no-/*-nā-, or (according to Pokorny) *-p-an, with the p later reducing to zero (but still conserved in the Lithuanian and Sanskrit cognates). The semantic evolution was probably: “to skin” > “skin, fur” > “fabric”. Cognates…

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