Throwendish

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

(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?’

Related terms

Throwendham

Translations

of or pertaining to Throwends

Danish: trøndsk, trøndersk
Faroese: trøndskur
German: dröntisch
Icelandic: þrænskur
Norwegian:
Bokmål: trøndersk

Nynorsk: trøndsk
Old Norse: þrǿnzkr
Swedish: tröndsk

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