trog

See also: Trog, trög, and tròg

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /tɹɒɡ/

• Audio (General Australian):

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• Rhymes: -ɒɡ

Etymology 1

Short for troglodyte.

Noun

trog (plural trogs)

1. (slang, UK) A hooligan, lout.
   • 1984, Martin Amis, Money, Vintage, published 2005, page 253:

     ‘I'm sharing a cell with a couple of trogs who make you look like the swan of Avon.’

Etymology 2

Unknown.

Verb

trog (third-person singular simple present trogs, present participle trogging, simple past and past participle trogged)

1. (slang) To walk laboriously; to trudge.
   • 2015, David Mitchell, Slade House:

     So down Westwood Road I trogged, looking left, looking right, searching high and low for Slade Alley.

Derived terms

• trog off

Anagrams

• grot

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch trog.

Noun

trog (plural trôe)

1. trough

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch troch, from Old Dutch *trog, from Proto-West Germanic *trog, from Proto-Germanic *trugą, *trugaz (compare West Frisian trôch, English trough, German Trog, Swedish tråg), from Proto-Indo-European *dru-kó- (compare Middle Irish drochta (“wooden basin”), Old Armenian տարգալ (targal, “ladle, spoon”)), enlargement of *dóru (“tree”).

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɔx

Noun

trog m (plural troggen, diminutive trogje n)

1. trough
2. (geology) trench

Anagrams

• grot

German

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Verb

trog

1. first/third-person singular preterite of trügen

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse trog.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʰrɔːɣ/
• Rhymes: -ɔːɣ

Noun

trog n (genitive singular trogs, nominative plural trog)

1. trough

Declension

Declension of trog (neuter)

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	trog	trogið	trog	trogin
accusative	trog	trogið	trog	trogin
dative	trogi	troginu	trogum	trogunum
genitive	trogs	trogsins	troga	troganna

Anagrams

• torg

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish do·furgaib.

Verb

trog (verbal noun troggal, past participle troggit)

1. to lift, raise, hoist, raise up, elevate, heave (as shoulders), boost
2. to rig up, construct, build
3. to take

Conjugation

Conjugation of trog

		Independent	Dependent	Relative
Past		hrog	drog	hrog
Future	General	trogee	drog	hroggys
	First singular	troggym	droggym	hroggym
	First plural	trog-maid	drog-maid	hroggys-maid
Conditional	General	hroggagh	droggagh	hroggagh
	First singular	hroggin	droggin	hroggin
Imperative	General	trog
	Second plural	trog-jee
Participle		troggit
Verbal noun		troggal

Whilst these forms are all possible, periphrastic constructions with jean are much more common.

Derived terms

• aahrog
• er-troggloo

Mutation

Mutation of trog

radical	lenition	eclipsis
trog	hrog	drog

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Manx.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /troːɡ/

Noun

trog n (definite singular troget, indefinite plural trog, definite plural troga)

1. (pre-2012) alternative form of trau
2. (pre-1938) alternative form of trau

Inflection

Historical inflection of trog

		singular		plural
		indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
Aasen1		eit Trog	Troget	Trog	Trogi
1901			troget (troge)
1917			troget		troga, trogi
19382		–	–	–	–
1981		eit trog	troget	trog	troga [trogi]
20122 (current)		–	–	–	–

• Forms in italics are currently considered non-standard.
• Forms in [brackets] were official, but considered second-tier.
• Forms in (parentheses) were allowed under Midlandsnormalen.
• ¹Nouns were capitalised for most of the 19th century. ²superseded by trau

Anagrams

• torg

Old English

Alternative forms

• troh

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *trog, from Proto-Germanic *trugaz. Related to Dutch trog, German Trog, Icelandic trog.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /troɡ/, [troɣ]

Noun

trog m

1. trough

   Þā swīn ǣton of þām troge.

   The pigs ate from the trough.

Declension

Strong a-stem:

	singular	plural
nominative	trog	trogas
accusative	trog	trogas
genitive	troges	troga
dative	troge	trogum

Derived terms

• ċilda trog
• ċildtrog
• lēactrog
• wīntrog

Descendants

• Middle English: trogh
  • English: trough
  • Scots: troch, trouch
• → Irish: trach

Old Norse

Alternative forms

• trug

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *trugą, *trugaz.

Noun

trog n

1. trough

Declension

Declension of trog (strong a-stem)

neuter	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	trog	trogit	trog	trogin
accusative	trog	trogit	trog	trogin
dative	trogi	troginu	trogum	trogunum
genitive	trogs	trogsins	troga	troganna

Descendants

• Icelandic: trog
• Faroese: trog
• Norwegian Nynorsk: trau
• Norwegian Bokmål: trau
• Danish: trug
• Swedish: tråg

Further reading

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “trog”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive