þrote

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *þrutǭ (“swell”), perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ster- (“to be strong, ready, stiff”).[1] Cognate with Old High German drozza (German Drossel).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈθro.te/

Noun

þrote f

  1. throat
    • Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church
      Woruldcara, and welan, and flǣsċlīċe lustas forsmoriað ðǣs mōdes ðrotan, and ne geðafiað gōdne willan infaran tō his heortan, swilċe hī ðone līflīċan blǣd forðrǣstne ācwellon. Twā wiðerrǣde ðing geðēodde Drihten on ðisum cwyde, þæt sind ymhīdiġnyssa and lustas.
      Concern about worldly things, and wealth, and carnal lusts choke the throat of the mind, and do not allow good will into the heart, as if they killed it by crushing the living fruit. The Lord connected two contrary things in this saying, which are cares and lusts.

Declension

Weak n-stem:

singular plural
nominative þrote þrotan
accusative þrotan þrotan
genitive þrotan þrotena
dative þrotan þrotum

Synonyms

Descendants

  • Middle English: throte, throate, troht, thorte
    • English: throat
    • Yola: dhraat

References

  1. ^ Friedrich Kluge (1883), “Drossel”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891
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