derb

== German == === Etymology === From a Low German merger of two unrelated adjectives: (1.) Old Saxon therbi (“unleavened”), from Proto-Germanic *þerbaz; and (2.) Old Saxon derbi (“coarse, warlike”). Both regularly collapsed in Middle Low German derve (“firm, bold”). Older High German had only the former of the two adjectives and lacked the other: Middle High German derp (“unleavened”), from Old High German derb (“unleavened”). The modern word is formally High German, but its semantic development has been determined by the Middle Low German one. (The original sense “unleavened” is last met with in the 18th century.) === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /dɛʁp/, [dɛʁp], [dɛɐ̯p] === Adjective === derb (strong nominative masculine singular derber, comparative derber, superlative am derbsten) rough, coarse, rude sturdy, tough (lexicography, literature, sociography) pertaining to a manner of intercourse that is wittingly aggressive, purposefully unrefined – cocky, cheeky, flippant, brazen (youth slang) cool, very good Alternative form: derbe ==== Declension ==== === Adverb === derb (youth slang) Used as intensifier; very Alternative form: derbe === Further reading === “derb”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎[1] (in German) “derb” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon “derb” in Duden online == Old High German == === Alternative forms === derp === Etymology === From Proto-Germanic *þerbaz. Cognate with Old English þeorf (English tharf), Middle Dutch derf (Dutch derf), Old Norse þjarfr. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /derb/ === Adjective === derb unleavened ==== Descendants ==== Middle High German: derp German: derb == Old Irish == === Etymology === From Proto-Celtic *derwos (“firm”), from Proto-Indo-European *drewh₂- (“steady, firm”), extension of *dóru (“tree”). Compare Old English trīewe, English true. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈd̠ʲeɾβ/ === Adjective === derb (comparative derbu) sure, certain, fixed, determinate c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 26a6 ==== Inflection ==== ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== Irish: dearbh Manx: jarroo Scottish Gaelic: dearbh === Mutation === === Further reading === Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 derb”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language