An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Annotated/verdrießen

by Friedrich Kluge

verdrießen, verb, ‘to grieve, vex, trouble,’ from Middle High German verdrieȥen, strong verb, ‘to excite anger, produce weariness’; also the equivalent Middle High German be-, erdrieȥen, from Old High German bi-, irdrioȥan, strong verb. Compare Gothic usþriutan, ‘to molest, revile,’ Anglo-Saxon þreátian (English to threaten), with â-þreótan, ‘to be disgusted,’ Dutch droten, ‘to threaten,’ with verdrieten, ‘to vex,’ Old Icelandic þrjóta, ‘to want, fail’ (þrot, ‘want,’ þraut, ‘hard task, trouble.’ The great development of the strong verbal root, Teutonic þrū̆t, makes it difficult to find undoubted cognates in non-Teutonic; Old Slovenian trudŭ, ‘pain, trouble,’ truzdą, ‘to torment,’ Latin trûdo, ‘to crowd, push,’ point to an Aryan root trū̆d. —