thrist

English

Noun

thrist

1. Obsolete form of thirst.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 17, page 261:

     Who ſhall him rew, that ſwimming in the maine, / Will die for thriſt, and water doth refuſe? / Refuſe ſuch fruitleſſe toile, and preſent pleaſures chuſe.

Verb

thrist (third-person singular simple present thrists, present participle thristing, simple past and past participle thristed)

1. Obsolete form of thirst.

Anagrams

• T-shirt, t-shirt, thirst

Welsh

Adjective

thrist

1. Aspirate mutation of trist (“sad”).

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
trist	drist	nhrist	thrist
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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Etymology

From Middle English trist, from Old Norse traust.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɾɪst/

Noun

thrist

1. trust

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 72