Old English · noun

þrote

Part of speech: noun, feminine
Declension: weak n-stem
IPA: /ˈθro.te/
Syllables: ˈθro · te (2 syllables)
Modern English: throat

Meaning

throat

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.
Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church

Declension

Declension of þrote
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	þrote	þrotan
Accusative	þrotan	þrotan
Genitive	þrotan	þrotena
Dative	þrotan	þrotum

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *þrotā, *þrotu, from Proto-Germanic *þrutǭ, *þrutō (“throat, windpipe”), perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ster- (“to be strong, ready, stiff”). Cognate with Old Frisian throt (“throat”), Old Saxon strota (“throat, gullet”), Old High German drozza (German Droß, Drossel), Old Norse þrútr (“snout, mouth”).

Descendants

throat

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