An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Annotated/dorren

by Friedrich Kluge

dorren, verb, from the equivalent Middle High German dorren, Old High German dorrên, ‘to get dry, dry up’; compare Old Saxon thorrôn, Gothic *þaurzan. A derivative of þorz-, which appears in dürr; compare Latin torrere, ‘to dry’ (torret is exactly equivalent to Old High German dorrêt, Gothic *þaurzaiþ). Instead of the form *þaurzan, Gothic has gaþaursnan (Old Icelandic þorna), ‘to get dry, dry up,’ which is differently derived (compare Darre, dürr).