þrote
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Old English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Germanic *þrutǭ (“swell”), perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ster- (“to be strong, ready, stiff”).[1] Cognate with Old High German drozza (German Drossel).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
þrote f
Declension[edit]
Declension of þrote (weak)
Synonyms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ Friedrich Kluge (1883), “Drossel”, in , John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891