throw

throw · verb, noun¹

1. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*terh₁-“to rub, rub by twisting, twist, turn”
2. Proto-Germanic · inherited from*þrēaną“to twist, turn”
3. Proto-West Germanic · inherited from*þrāan
4. Old English · inherited fromþrāwan“to turn, twist”
5. Middle English · inherited fromthrowen
6. English todaythrow

From Middle English throwen, thrawen, from Old English þrāwan (“to turn, twist”), from Proto-West Germanic *þrāan, from Proto-Germanic *þrēaną (“to twist, turn”), from Proto-Indo-European *terh₁- (“to rub, rub by twisting, twist, turn”). Cognate with Scots thraw (“to twist, turn, throw”), West Frisian triuwe (“to push”), Dutch draaien (“to turn”), Low German draien, dreien (“to turn (in a lathe)”), German drehen (“to turn”). Displaced warp as the word for hurling and was displaced by warp as the word for twisting. The use in computing comes from the fact, that in programming languages a statement reporting an error interrupts normal processing and sends an error object up the function calling stack until a handling statement intercepts it. Thus an “object” is “thrown” and “flies” until it is “caught”.

throw · noun²

1. Old English · inherited fromþrāh
2. English todaythrow

From Middle English, from Old English þrāh, þrāg (“space of time, period, while”). Of uncertain origin. Perhaps related to Gothic 𐌸𐍂𐌰𐌲𐌾𐌰𐌽 (þragjan, “to run”).

throw · noun, verb³

See throe.

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