Throwendish

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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

  1. (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?’

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