From Middle English durren, from Old English durran, from Proto-West Germanic *durʀan, from Proto-Germanic *durzaną ("to dare"), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰedʰórse ("to dare"), reduplicated stative of the root *dʰers-, an *-s- extension of *dʰer-.
Cognate with Low German dören, Dutch durven, Sanskrit दधर्ष, but also with Ancient Greek θρασύς, Albanian nder, Lithuanian drįsti, Russian дерза́ть.
From Middle English, from Old English darian.
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