drage

See also: dragé and dragë

Central Franconian

Alternative forms

• draan, droon (chiefly Moselle Franconian)

Etymology

From Middle High German dragen, from Old High German *dragan, northern variant of tragan, from Proto-Germanic *draganą.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdʀaːɣə/

Verb

drage (third-person singular present drät, past tense drooch, past participle jedrage)

1. (most of Ripuarian) to carry, bear, wear

Danish

drage

Etymology 1

From Old Danish draghæ, drake, Old East Norse *draki, from Proto-West Germanic *drakō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈd̥ʁɑːwə], [ˈd̥ʁɑːʊ]

Noun

drage c (singular definite dragen, plural indefinite drager)

1. dragon (mythical creature)
2. drake (a small type of wingless dragon)
3. kite
4. hang glider (unpowered aircraft)
5. dragon keelboat
6. Viking longship

Declension

Declension of drage

common gender	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	drage	dragen	drager	dragerne
genitive	drages	dragens	dragers	dragernes

Etymology 2

From Old Danish draghæ, from Old Norse draga, from Proto-Germanic *draganą, cognate with English draw and drag and German tragen. The Germanic verb goes back to Proto-Indo-European *dʰregʰ- (“pull, draw, drag”), cf. Ancient Greek τρέχω (trékhō, “to run”) (Latin trahō (“to pull”) has a problematic t-).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈd̥ʁɑːwə], [ˈd̥ʁɑːʊ]

Verb

drage (imperative drag, present drager, past drog, past participle n draget, c dragen, pl dragne)

1. draw
2. attract, allure
3. go, march, travel

Conjugation

Conjugation of drage

active passive infinitive drage drages present drager drages past drog drogs imperative drag — participle present dragende past (have / havde / er / var) draget gerund dragen

Etymology 3

From French dragée, via Latin tragēmata n pl (“dried fruits”) from Ancient Greek τραγήματα n pl (tragḗmata, “dried fruits, sweetmeats”).

Alternative forms

• dragé

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [d̥ʁɑˈɕe]

Noun

drage c (singular definite drageen, plural indefinite drageer)

1. dragée

Declension

Declension of drage

common gender	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	drage	drageen	drageer	drageerne
genitive	drages	drageens	drageers	drageernes

References

• “drage” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “drage” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

Dutch

Verb

drage

1. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of dragen

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

Inherited from Danish drage, from Proto-West Germanic *drakō (either through Middle Low German drāke or through a hypothetical eastern Old Norse *draki corresponding to western dreki). Further from Latin draco, from Ancient Greek δράκων (drákōn). One of the fairly rare cases in which a form with lenited Danish b, d, g has persisted in Bokmål (the Norwegianized form drake remaining less common).

Noun

drage m (definite singular dragen, indefinite plural drager, definite plural dragene)

1. dragon
2. kite

Alternative forms

• drake

Derived terms

• drageblod
• dragehode
• drageskip

Etymology 2

Inherited from Danish drage. See this and the lemma form for more.

Verb

drage (present tense drager, past tense drog, past participle draget)

1. form removed with the spelling reform of 2005; superseded by dra

Further reading

• “drage” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “drage” in Norwegian Academy Dictionary (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

drage (present tense dreg, past tense drog, supine drege, past participle dregen, present participle dragande, imperative drag)

1. e-infinitive form of draga

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdrɑ.ɡe/, [ˈdrɑ.ɣe]

Verb

drage

1. inflection of dragan:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. singular present subjunctive

Romanian

Noun

drage

1. plural of dragă

Serbo-Croatian

Adjective

drage (Cyrillic spelling драге)

1. inflection of drag:
   1. masculine accusative plural
   2. feminine genitive singular
   3. feminine nominative/accusative/vocative plural

Noun

drage (Cyrillic spelling драге)

1. inflection of draga:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural

West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian draga, from Proto-West Germanic *dragan.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdraɣə/

Verb

drage

1. to carry

Inflection

Strong class 6
infinitive	drage
3rd singular past	droech
past participle	dragen
infinitive	drage
long infinitive	dragen
gerund	dragen n
auxiliary	hawwe
indicative	present tense	past tense
1st singular	draach	droech
2nd singular	draachst	droechst
clitic form	draachsto	droechsto
3rd singular	draacht	droech
plural	drage	droegen
imperative	draach
participles	dragend	dragen

Further reading

• “drage”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011