þrote
Old English edit
Etymology edit
From 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 edit
Noun edit
þrote f
Declension edit
Declension of þrote (weak)
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Descendants edit
References edit
- ^ Friedrich Kluge (1883) “Drossel”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891