durustod

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *durastudō. Equivalent to dūru (“door”) +‎ studu (“post”). Cognate with Old Norse durastoð (“doorpost”).

Noun

dūrustod f

1. doorpost, doorjamb

References

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “dūrustod”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎^[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.