vertrocknen

(ver verb)

Meanings

1.
to dry out, to wither
(Mostly used in context of plants. It's what the plant does, so it's not the right word if you dry fruits. That's just "trocknen". "vertrocknen" sounds negative.)

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Root: *dreug-

This is a Germanic root with no certain members in other Indo-European languages.
The core idea was:

dry

The only English branch of the family are words around dry and drought.

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