threap

threap · noun¹

1. Old English · inherited from*þrēap“contention, strife”
2. Middle English · inherited fromthrep“a rebuke”
3. English todaythreap

From Middle English threp (“a rebuke”), from the verb (see below). Alternative etymology derives Middle English threp, from Old English *þrēap (“contention, strife”) (attested only as Old English þrēap, in the sense of "troop, band"), ultimately from the same Germanic origin below.

threap · verb²

1. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*trōw-“to beat, wound, kill, torment”
2. Proto-Germanic · derived from*þrawjaną“to torment, injure, exhaust”
3. Proto-Germanic · derived from*þrawō“torment, punishment”
4. Proto-Germanic · inherited from*þraupōną“to punish”
5. Proto-West Germanic · inherited from*þraupōn
6. Old English · inherited fromþrēapian“to reprove, reprehend, punish, blame”
7. Middle English · inherited fromthrepen“to scold”
8. English todaythreap

From Middle English threpen (“to scold”), from Old English þrēapian (“to reprove, reprehend, punish, blame”), from Proto-West Germanic *þraupōn, from Proto-Germanic *þraupōną (“to punish”), from Proto-Germanic *þrawō (“torment, punishment”), from Proto-Germanic *þrawjaną (“to torment, injure, exhaust”), from Proto-Indo-European *trōw- (“to beat, wound, kill, torment”). Akin to Old English þrēagan (“to rebuke, punish, chastise”), þrēa (“correction, punishment”), þrōwian (“to suffer”). More at throe.

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