dre

See also: DRE, Dre, dré, drę, dře, and Dre.

Albanian

(Tosk):
- singular: drë (Arbëreshë), ndre (South Tosk, Arbëreshë)
- plural: drenjtë (definite)
(Gheg):
- singular: drê
- plural: drenë, drêna, drenj (indefinite)

From Proto-Albanian *drani, identical to Hesychian ἀρανίς (aranís) (misspelling of δρανίς (dranís, “deer”)), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrēn- (“drone, buzz”).^[1] Compare English drone, Ancient Greek θρήνος (thrḗnos, “lament”)).^[2]

dre m (plural drerë, definite dreri, definite plural drerët)

Declension of dre

^ Mallory, J. P., Adams, D. Q., editors (1997), Encyclopedia of Indo-European culture, London, Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, page 395
^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “dre”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, pages 72-3

dre (triggers soft mutation)

dré (Kur-itan spelling ᜇ᜔ᜎᜒ) (Abra)

It is a familiar term used by younger males to each other, sometimes women use it to address their heterosexual male friends.

dre

dre f

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
tre	dre	nhre	thre
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.