Dird n (plural Dirde)
From Old Saxon dior from Proto-Germanic *deuzą, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewsóm ‘living thing’ (compare Albanian dash (“ram”), Lithuanian pl. daũsos (“upper air; heaven”)), from *dʰews- ‘breath’ (compare Lithuanian dùsti (“to sigh”), Russian душа (dušá, “breath, spirit”)), full-grade derivative of *dʰwésmi (compare Lithuanian dvėsti (“to breathe, exhale”), Sanskrit ध्वंसति (dhvaṃsati, “he falls to dust”)).
