The story
- Old English · learned borrowing fromÞrōwendas pl
- English todayThrowends
Learned borrowing from Old English Þrōwendas pl, from Proto-Germanic *þrōwōną (“to grow, prosper”) + *-ndz. Compare Proto-Norse *þrōwendīʀ pl, whence Old Norse þrǿndir, þrǿndr. Cognate with Norwegian trønder, Icelandic Þrændir and German Drönter.
Words from the same roots
Old EnglishÞrōwendas all →
ThrowendThrowendham
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.