Þrowendas
See also: þrowendas
Old English
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editCompare Proto-Norse *þrōwendīʀ m pl, from Proto-Germanic *þrōwōną (“to grow, thrive, prosper”) + *-ndz. Cognate with Old Norse þrǿndir, þrǿndr, Icelandic Þrændir and Norwegian trønder.
Noun
editÞrōwendas m pl
- Thronds, Throwends; a Norwegian people inhabiting the area of modern Trøndelag.
- 1898, Joseph Bosworth, Thomas Northcote Toller, An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, page 1072:
- Mid Þyringum ic wæs and mid Þrowendum and mid Burgendum,
- With Thuringians I was and with Throwends and with Burgundians,
Declension
editDeclension of Þrowendas (strong nd-stem)
Descendants
editReferences
edit- Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon (1989) Íslensk orðsifjabók (in Icelandic), Reykjavík: Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, →ISBN
- ^ Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “Þrowende”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 1072.