þrote
Old English
editEtymology
editFrom 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
editNoun
editþrote f
Declension
editDeclension of þrote (weak)
Synonyms
editDescendants
editReferences
edit- ^ Friedrich Kluge (1883) “Drossel”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891