derb

• derbe (chiefly colloquial)

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 Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value). 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.)

• IPA^(key): /dɛʁp/, [dɛʁp], [dɛɐ̯p]

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derb (strong nominative masculine singular derber, comparative derber, superlative am derbsten)

1. rough, coarse, rude
2. sturdy, tough
3. (lexicography, literature, sociography) pertaining to a manner of intercourse that is wittingly aggressive, purposefully unrefined – cocky, cheeky, flippant, brazen

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• derp

From Proto-Germanic *þerbaz. Cognate with Old English þeorf (English tharf), Middle Dutch derf (Dutch derf), Old Norse þjarfr.

• IPA^(key): /derb/

derb

1. unleavened

• Middle High German: derp
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From Proto-Celtic *derwos (“firm”), from Proto-Indo-European *drewh₂- (“steady, firm”), extension of *dóru (“tree”). Compare Old English trīewe, English true.

• IPA^(key): /dʲerv/

derb (comparative derbu)

1. 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. 26^a6

     ɔ eperthae cía aiccent ⁊ cisí aimser derb thechtas

     so that it might be said what accent and what certain time it has

• Irish: dearbh
• Manx: jarroo
• Scottish Gaelic: dearbh

• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 derb”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language