þrines
Old English
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom 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
editNoun
editþrines f
- trinity
- (Christianity) the Trinity
Declension
editDeclension of þrīnes (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.