Old English · noun
trieg
Normalised trīeġ
- Part of speech
- noun, neuter
- Declension
- strong a-stem
- IPA
- /tri͜yːj/
- Syllables
- tri͜yːj (1 syllable)
- Modern English
- trayboardrim
Meaning
-
a wooden board with a low rim; tray
Declension
All forms (5)
Etymology
From trauj-, from trauwʲ-, the oblique stem of Proto-West Germanic *trawi, from Proto-Germanic *trawją (“wooden vessel”). Cognate with Old Swedish trø (“wooden grain measure”), Low German Treechel (“dough trough”), possibly Old Norse treyja (“carrier”). Related to Old English trog (“trough”). Thought to be from the same root as trēow (“tree”), from Proto-Germanic *trewą, from Proto-Indo-European *dóru (“tree”), *drew- (“hard, firm, strong, solid”). Potential cognates from this root include Sanskrit द्रोण (droṇa, “trough”) and Ancient Greek δροίτη (droítē, “tub, vat”). For the phonetic developm…
Descendants
tray
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