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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
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?’
Translations
of or pertaining to Throwends