thrist
English
Noun
thrist
- Obsolete form of thirst.[1]
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 17, page 261:
- Who ſhall him rew, that ſwimming in the maine, / Will die for thriſt, and water doth refuſe? / Refuſe ſuch fruitleſſe toile, and preſent pleaſures chuſe.
Verb
thrist (third-person singular simple present thrists, present participle thristing, simple past and past participle thristed)
- Obsolete form of thirst.
References
- ^ “thrist”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Anagrams
Welsh
Adjective
thrist
Mutation
radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
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trist | drist | nhrist | thrist |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
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Etymology
From Middle English trist, from Old Norse traust.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t̪rɪst/
Noun
thrist
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