Where does “drōsna” come from?

drōsna (Old English) comes from Old English -sn, from Proto-Germanic -snō, from Proto-Indo-European -sneh₂ — Used to form nouns denoting an object.

drōsna (Old English): dirt

Definitions

  1. dirt

Ancestry of “drōsna”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old English-snForms feminine ō-stem nouns denoting a tool or...
2Proto-Germanic-snōForms nouns denoting a tool or instrument
3Proto-Indo-European-sneh₂Used to form nouns denoting an object
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -sneh₂ →Every word from Proto-Germanic -snō →Every word from Old English -sn →