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

  1. throat

Declension[edit]

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Descendants[edit]

  • Middle English: throte, throate, troht, thorte
    • English: throat
    • Yola: dhraat

References[edit]

  1. ^ Friedrich Kluge (1883), “Drossel”, in , John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891