Dry

Morpheme

Dry

Type

free base

Denotation

not wet, parched, withered, free from moisture or liquid

Etymology

Middle English drien, drye, dryge, drüȝe; Old English drygan, drȳġe

Evidence

dried, drier, driest, dry, dryable, drybrush, drydock, dryer, dryest, drying, dryish, dryland, dryline, dryly, dryness, drypoint, dryscape, dryside, nondrying, overdry, semidry, superdry, ultradry, undried

Notes

<y> need not toggle (but can) with suffixes, especially in monosyllabic bases ending in <y>

See Also

Drought

Homographs

Dry