An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/verdrießen

by Friedrich Kluge

verdrießen, vb., ‘to grieve, vex, trouble,’ from MidHG. verdrieȥen, str. vb., ‘to excite anger, produce weariness’; also the equiv. MidHG. be-, erdrieȥen, from OHG. bi-, irdrioȥan, str. vb. Comp. Goth. usþriutan, ‘to molest, revile,’ AS. þreátian (E. to threaten), with â-þreótan, ‘to be disgusted,’ Du. droten, ‘to threaten,’ with verdrieten, ‘to vex,’ OIc. þrjóta, ‘to want, fail’ (þrot, ‘want,’ þraut, ‘hard task, trouble.’ The great development of the str. verbal root, Teut. þrū̆t, makes it difficult to find undoubted cognates in non-Teut.; OSlov. trudŭ, ‘pain, trouble,’ truzdą, ‘to torment,’ Lat. trûdo, ‘to crowd, push,’ point to an Aryan root trū̆d. —