Drought
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late Old English drūgath ‘dryness’, of Germanic origin; compare with Dutch droogte ; related to dry.
wiktionary
From Middle English droghte, drouȝte, druhhþe, druȝþe, drouȝth, from Old English drūgaþ, equivalent to dry + -th. Cognate with Dutch droogte, Low German Dröögde.
etymonline
drought (n.)
Old English drugaþ, drugoþ "continuous dry weather injurious to vegetation, dryness," from Proto-Germanic *drugothaz, from Germanic root *dreug- "dry" with *-itho, Germanic suffix for forming abstract nouns. See dry (adj.) + -th (2), and compare high/height, etc. Drouth was a Middle English variant continued in Scottish and northern English dialect and in poetry.
