þrines
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Old English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-West Germanic *þrinassī, unless Old High German drinessi is a parallel formation or a calque from the Old English of Anglo-Saxon missionaries. In any case, equivalent to þri- + -nes.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]þrines f
- trinity
- (Christianity) the Trinity
Declension
[edit]Declension of þrīnes (strong ō-stem)
Descendants
[edit]- Middle English: *Threnesse, Thrumnesse, Thrimnesse
References
[edit]- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “þrinness”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.