þrines
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Old English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-West Germanic *þrinassī, unless Old High German drinessi is a parallel formation or a calque from the Old English of Anglo-Saxon missionaries. In any case, equivalent to þri- + -nes.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
þrines f
- trinity
- (Christianity) the Trinity
Declension[edit]
Declension of þrines (strong ō-stem)
Descendants[edit]
- Middle English: *Threnesse, Thrumnesse, Thrimnesse
References[edit]
- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “þrinness”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.