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dirre

“dirre” is a Danish word. Its meaning in English:

verb

  1. quiver, tremble

Etymology

From Norwegian dirre, a variant of darre, from Old Norse dirre (“to shake”), from a Proto-Germanic derivative of Proto-Indo-European *dʰerh₃- (“to spring, leap”), see also Ancient Greek θρῴσκω (thrōískō). A probable Germanic cognate is Dutch dartel (“playful, frisky”).

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