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==Etymology==
− It is unrecorded in Old English, though it may have existed,^(Etymonline) and corresponds to Low German drake and the second element of Old High German anutrehho (German Enterich), from West Germanic [[m|gmw-pro|*drakō]].^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline)^(NODE 1998) Hoad calls it of obscure origin.^(Hoad 1986) The first part of the Old High German word is anut, duck, cognate with Latin anas and Greek nêtta, duck.^(Barnhart 1988)
+ It is unrecorded in Old English, though it may have existed,^(Etymonline) and corresponds to Low German drake and the second element of [[goh|anutrehho]] ([[de|Enterich]]), from West Germanic [[m|gmw-pro|*drakō]].^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline)^(NODE 1998) Hoad calls it of obscure origin.^(Hoad 1986) The first part of the Old High German word is anut, duck, cognate with [[la|anas]] and [[grc|νῆττα|tr=nêtta]], duck.^(Barnhart 1988)
==Earliest recorded meaning==