Throwendish

English

Etymology

From Throwends +‎ -ish; a calque of Old Norse þrǿnzkr, from þróndr (plural þrǿndir, þrǿndr). Compare Norwegian trøndsk and German dröntisch.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈθrəʊ(ə)ndɪʃ/

Adjective

Throwendish

1. (relational) related or pertaining to Throwends or Throwendham

   Synonym: Throndish

   • 1905, Guðbrandur Vigfússon, Origines Islandicae, volume 2, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, page 483:

     Ogmund spake ‘Dost know at all where the man is whose name is Halward, a Throwendish man of good kin and rich?’

Related terms

• Throwendham

Translations

of or pertaining to Throwends

• Danish: trøndsk, trøndersk
• Faroese: trøndskur
• German: dröntisch
• Icelandic: þrænskur
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: trøndersk

  Nynorsk: trøndsk

• Old Norse: þrǿnzkr
• Swedish: tröndsk