Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/þrumą

This Proto-Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Of uncertain origin. R. Meringer compares Ancient Greek τέρμα (térma, “end, boundary, goal”), Latin terminus (“boundary, term”), both from Proto-Indo-European *térmn̥ (“boundary”)),^[1] which, if correct, invokes an older sense of "stone or piece (used to mark a boundary)".

*þrumą n^[2]

1. stump, trunk, block; butt, end

• *þrumǭ

• Old English: *þrum (in tunge-þrum "sublinguae; a ligament of the tongue")
  • Middle English: throm
    • English: thrum (“end of the warp threads; a tuft or tassel”)
• Old Saxon: thrumi
• Middle Dutch: drom, drum
  • Dutch: drom, dreum
• Old High German: trum, drum; demil (“beam”)
  • Middle High German: trum, drum; treme, trempel (“supporting pillar”), trame, drame (“beam”)
    • German: Trumm (“large block, lump”), Trümmer (“debris”); Tremel (“trunk”)
• Old Norse: þrǫmr (“edge, border, brim”)
  • Norwegian: tröm, trumm, tram
  • Swedish: tröm, trumm, trom (“trunk, block of wood”)