Drönter

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German

Etymology

Adapted borrowing of Old Norse þrǿndir, þrǿndr m pl. Compare Norwegian trønder.

Noun

Drönter m pl (plural only)

  1. Thronds, people from Trøndelag
    • 1767, Johann Gottfried Haymann, Carl Gottlob Dietmann, Neue Europäische Staats- und Reisegeographie worinnen die Staaten und Königreiche Dänemark, Norwegen, Schweden und Preussen, samt den Besitzungen der Krone Dänemark in Afrika, Asien und Amerika, ausführlich beschreiben werden., volume 14, page 245:
      Den heutigen Namen hat sie der umliegenden Gegend zu verdanken, welche ehedem Drontheim, die Einwohner aber Drönter oder Trönder geheissen.
      Its current name comes from the surrounding area, which used to be called Throndham, but the inhabitants were called Thronds or Trønder.

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