Throwendish
English
Etymology
From Throwends + -ish; a calque of Old Norse þrǿnzkr, from þróndr (plural þrǿndir, þrǿndr). Compare Norwegian trøndsk and German dröntisch.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈθrəʊ(ə)ndɪʃ/
Adjective
Throwendish
- (relational) related or pertaining to Throwends or Throwendham
- Synonym: Throndish
- 1905, Guðbrandur Vigfússon, Origines Islandicae, volume 2, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, page 483:
- Ogmund spake ‘Dost know at all where the man is whose name is Halward, a Throwendish man of good kin and rich?’
Related terms
- Throwendham
Translations
of or pertaining to Throwends
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