Drake

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Middle English: of West Germanic origin; related to Low German drake and German Enterich .

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From Middle English drake(“male duck, drake”), from Old English draca, abbreviated form for Old English *andraca(“male duck, drake”, literally “duck-king”), from Proto-West Germanic *anadrekō(“duck leader”). Cognate with Low German drake(“drake”), Dutch draak(“drake”), German Enterich(“drake”). More at ennet.

From Middle English drake(“dragon; Satan”), from Old English draca(“dragon, sea monster, huge serpent”), from Proto-West Germanic *drakō(“dragon”), from Latin dracō(“dragon”), from Ancient Greek δράκων(drákōn, “serpent, giant seafish”), from δέρκομαι(dérkomai, “I see clearly”), from Proto-Indo-European *derḱ-. Compare Middle Dutch drake and German Drache.

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drake (n.1)

"male of the duck," c. 1300, unrecorded in Old English, but it might have existed, from West Germanic *drako (source also of Low German drake, second element of Old High German anutrehho, German Enterich, dialectal German Drache).

drake (n.2)

"dragon," c. 1200, from Old English draca "dragon, sea monster, huge serpent," from Proto-Germanic *drako (source also of Middle Dutch and Old Frisian drake, Dutch draak, Old High German trahho, German drache), an early borrowing from Latin draco (see dragon).