thrist
English edit
Noun edit
thrist
- Obsolete form of thirst.[1]
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 17, page 261:
- Who ſhall him rew, that ſwimming in the maine, / Will die for thriſt, and water doth refuſe? / Refuſe ſuch fruitleſſe toile, and preſent pleaſures chuſe.
Verb edit
thrist (third-person singular simple present thrists, present participle thristing, simple past and past participle thristed)
References edit
- ^ “thrist”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Anagrams edit
Welsh edit
Adjective edit
thrist
Mutation edit
Welsh mutation | |||
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radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
trist | drist | nhrist | thrist |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Yola edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English trist, from Old Norse traust.
Noun edit
thrist
References edit
- Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 72