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Proto-Germanic
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *tréh₁-e-ti, from *treh₁-, *terh₁- (“to rub, turn, pierce”).[1]
Pronunciation
Verb
*þrēaną
- to twist, to turn
Inflection
Conjugation of
*þrēaną (strong class 7d)
Descendants
References
- ^ Guus Kroonen (2013) “*þrēan-”, in Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 546