Etymology

Trost

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Today it means: A surname from German. Full definition →

German Trost ← Middle High German trōst ← Old High German trōst
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*dóru
  2. Proto-Germanic*traustaz
  3. Proto-Germanic*traustą
  4. Proto-West Germanic*traust
  5. Old High Germantrōst
  6. Middle High Germantrōst
  7. GermanTrost
  8. English todayTrost

Borrowed from German Trost.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.