threeve

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English thryven, from Old Norse þrífa, from Proto-Germanic *þrībaną.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /θriːv/

Verb

threeve

1. to thrive
   • 1867, “CASTEALE CUDDE'S LAMENTATION”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 3, page 104:

     Mee piggès, mee geearthès, nor nodhing threeve,

     My pigs, my goats, nor nothing thrive,

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 72