Gnomish
drib-
verb. to rot, decay, wear out
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drib-
verb. to rot, decay, wear out
A verb in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s translated “rot, decay, wear out” based on the early root ᴱ√nṛq- (GL/30). This root was glossed “to wither, fade, shrivel” in the contemporaneous Qenya Lexicon (QL/68).