Throwendish

related or pertaining to Throwends or Throwendham

Adjective

  1. related or pertaining to Throwends or Throwendham
    • Ogmund spake ‘Dost know at all where the man is whose name is Halward, a Throwendish man of good kin and rich?’ - 1905, Guðbrandur Vigfússon, Origines Islandicae, volume 2, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, page 483:

    Synonyms: Throndish

Origin

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

Related

Throwendham