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The verb is derived from Middle English dragen, draghen, draue, drauen, drauhen, drawe, drawen, draȝe, draȝen, draȝhenn (‘to drag, pull; to draw (out); to attract; to entice, lure; to lead; to make a drawing; to move, travel; etc.’), from Old English dragan (‘to drag, draw’), from Proto-West Germanic *dragan (‘to carry, haul’), from Proto-Germanic *draganą (‘to carry, draw, pull’); further etymology uncertain, often said to be from Proto-Indo-European *dʰregʰ- (‘to drag, pull, run’), but possibly from a non-Indo-European substrate root which is also the source of Latin trahō (‘to pull, draw; etc.’).1uncertain The source flags this step as uncertain.

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