trog

See also: Trog, trög, and tròg

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /tɹɒɡ/

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• Rhymes: -ɒɡ

Etymology 1

Short for troglodyte.

Noun

trog (plural trogs)

1. (slang, UK) A hooligan, lout.
   • 1984, Martin Amis, Money, Vintage, published 2005, page 253:

     ‘I'm sharing a cell with a couple of trogs who make you look like the swan of Avon.’

Etymology 2

Unknown.

Verb

trog (third-person singular simple present trogs, present participle trogging, simple past and past participle trogged)

1. (slang) To walk laboriously; to trudge.
   • 2015, David Mitchell, Slade House:

     So down Westwood Road I trogged, looking left, looking right, searching high and low for Slade Alley.

Anagrams

• grot

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch trog.

Noun

trog (plural trôe)

1. trough

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch troch, from Old Dutch *trog, from Proto-West Germanic *trog, from Proto-Germanic *trugą, *trugaz (compare West Frisian trôch, English trough, German Trog, Swedish tråg), from Proto-Indo-European *dru-kó (compare Middle Irish drochta (“wooden basin”), Old Armenian տարգալ (targal, “ladle, spoon”)), enlargement of *dóru (“tree”).

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ɔx

Noun

trog m (plural troggen, diminutive trogje n)

1. trough
2. (geology) trench

Anagrams

• grot

German

Pronunciation

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Verb

trog

1. first/third-person singular preterite of trügen

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse trog

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʰrɔːɣ/
• Rhymes: -ɔːɣ

Noun

trog n (genitive singular trogs, nominative plural trog)

1. trough

Declension

declension of trog

n-s	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	trog	trogið	trog	trogin
accusative	trog	trogið	trog	trogin
dative	trogi	troginu	trogum	trogunum
genitive	trogs	trogsins	troga	troganna

Anagrams

• torg

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish do·furgaib.

Verb

trog (verbal noun troggal, past participle troggit)

1. to lift, raise, hoist, raise up, elevate, heave (as shoulders), boost
2. to gather up
3. to rig up, construct, build
4. to elaborate
5. to input
6. to take
7. to invoke
8. to wind, winch
9. to put up
10. to breed
11. to rear, nurture, train (as child)
12. to arise
13. to pull in
14. to set in rows
15. to sing up
16. to harvest
17. to rally
18. to pick up
19. to freshen (of wind)
20. to contract (as disease)
21. to pick off

Derived terms

• aahrog

Mutation

Manx mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
trog	hrog	drog
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /troːɡ/

Noun

trog n (definite singular troget, indefinite plural trog, definite plural troga)

1. (pre-2012) alternative form of trau
2. (pre-1938) alternative form of trau

Inflection

Historical inflection of trog indefinite singular definite singular indefinite plural definite plural Aasen1 eit Trog Troget Trog Trogi 1901 troget (troge) 1917 troget troga, trogi 19382 – – – – 1981 eit trog troget trog troga [trogi] 20122 (current) – – – – Forms in italics are currently considered non-standard. Forms in [brackets] were official, but considered second-tier. Forms in (parentheses) were allowed under Midlandsnormalen. 1Nouns were capitalised for most of the 19th century. 2superseded by trau

Anagrams

• torg

Old English

Alternative forms

• troh

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *trog, from Proto-Germanic *trugaz. Related to Dutch trog, German Trog, Icelandic trog.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /troɡ/, [troɣ]

Noun

trog m

1. trough

   Þā swīn ǣton of þām troge.

   The pigs ate from the trough.

Declension

Declension of trog (strong a-stem)

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	trog	trogas
accusative	trog	trogas
genitive	troges	troga
dative	troge	trogum

Derived terms

• ċilda trog
• ċildtrog
• lēactrog
• wīntrog

Descendants

• Middle English: trogh
  • English: trough
  • Scots: troch, trouch
• → Irish: trach

Old Norse

Alternative forms

• trug

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *trugą, *trugaz.

Noun

trog n

1. trough

Declension

  Declension of trog (strong a-stem)

neuter	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	trog	trogit	trog	trogin
accusative	trog	trogit	trog	trogin
dative	trogi	troginu	trogum	trogunum
genitive	trogs	trogsins	troga	troganna

Descendants

• Icelandic: trog
• Norwegian Nynorsk: trau
• Norwegian Bokmål: trau
• Swedish: tråg

References

• “trog”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press