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trog

See also: Trog, trög, and tròg

English

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Etymology 1

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Short for troglodyte.

Noun

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trog (plural trogs)

  1. (slang, UK) A hooligan, lout.
    • 1984, Martin Amis, Money, Vintage, published 2005, page 253:
      ‘I'm sharing a cell with a couple of trogs who make you look like the swan of Avon.’

Etymology 2

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Unknown.

Verb

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trog (third-person singular simple present trogs, present participle trogging, simple past and past participle trogged)

  1. (slang) To walk laboriously; to trudge.
    • 2015, David Mitchell, Slade House:
      So down Westwood Road I trogged, looking left, looking right, searching high and low for Slade Alley.

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Afrikaans

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Etymology

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From Dutch trog.

Noun

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trog (plural trôe)

  1. trough

Dutch

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Dutch Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology

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From Middle Dutch troch, from Old Dutch *trog, from Proto-West Germanic *trog, from Proto-Germanic *trugą, *trugaz (compare West Frisian trôch, English trough, German Trog, Swedish tråg), from Proto-Indo-European *dru-kó (compare Middle Irish drochta (“wooden basin”), Old Armenian տարգալ (targal, “ladle, spoon”)), enlargement of *dóru (“tree”).

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Noun

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trog m (plural troggen, diminutive trogje n)

  1. trough
  2. (geology) trench

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German

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trog

  1. first/third-person singular preterite of trügen

Icelandic

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Etymology

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From Old Norse trog

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Noun

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trog n (genitive singular trogs, nominative plural trog)

  1. trough

Declension

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declension of trog
n-s singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative trog trogið trog trogin
accusative trog trogið trog trogin
dative trogi troginu trogum trogunum
genitive trogs trogsins troga troganna

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Manx

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Etymology

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From Old Irish do·furgaib.

Verb

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trog (verbal noun troggal, past participle troggit)

  1. to lift, raise, hoist, raise up, elevate, heave (as shoulders), boost
  2. to gather up
  3. to rig up, construct, build
  4. to elaborate
  5. to input
  6. to take
  7. to invoke
  8. to wind, winch
  9. to put up
  10. to breed
  11. to rear, nurture, train (as child)
  12. to arise
  13. to pull in
  14. to set in rows
  15. to sing up
  16. to harvest
  17. to rally
  18. to pick up
  19. to freshen (of wind)
  20. to contract (as disease)
  21. to pick off

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Mutation

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Manx mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
trog hrog drog
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Norwegian Nynorsk

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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trog n (definite singular troget, indefinite plural trog, definite plural troga)

  1. (pre-2012) alternative form of trau
  2. (pre-1938) alternative form of trau

Inflection

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Historical inflection of trog
indefinite singular definite singular indefinite plural definite plural
Aasen1 eit Trog Troget Trog Trogi
1901 troget (troge)
1917 troget troga, trogi
19382 – – – –
1981 eit trog troget trog troga [trogi]
20122 (current) – – – –

Forms in italics are currently considered non-standard. Forms in [brackets] were official, but considered second-tier. Forms in (parentheses) were allowed under Midlandsnormalen. 1Nouns were capitalised for most of the 19th century. 2superseded by trau

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Old English

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Proto-West Germanic *trog, from Proto-Germanic *trugaz. Related to Dutch trog, German Trog, Icelandic trog.

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Noun

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trog m

  1. trough
    Þā swīn ǣton of þām troge.
    The pigs ate from the trough.

Declension

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Declension of trog (strong a-stem)
Case Singular Plural
nominative trog trogas
accusative trog trogas
genitive troges troga
dative troge trogum

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Middle English: trogh
  • → Irish: trach

Old Norse

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Proto-Germanic *trugą, *trugaz.

Noun

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trog n

  1. trough

Declension

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  Declension of trog (strong a-stem)
neuter singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative trog trogit trog trogin
accusative trog trogit trog trogin
dative trogi troginu trogum trogunum
genitive trogs trogsins troga troganna

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References

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  • “trog”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
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