traust

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traust

1. second-person singular present of trauen

From Old Norse traust (“confidence, trust, security, help, shelter, safe abode”), from Proto-Germanic *traustą (“trust, shelter”), from Proto-Indo-European *deru-, *dreu-, *drū- (“to be firm, be solid”). See also treysta (“to trust”).

• IPA^(key): /tʰrøyst/

  Rhymes: -øyst

traust n (genitive singular trausts, no plural)

1. trust, faith

   Synonym: trúnaður

   Ég hef alltaf synt þér traust. ― I have always shown faith in you.

2. confidence, trust

   Synonym: tiltrú

From Old Norse traustr.

• IPA^(key): /træʉst/

traust (indefinite singular traust, definite singular and plural trauste, comparative traustare, indefinite superlative traustast, definite superlative traustaste)

1. trusty, strong, solid, firm
   • 1863, Ivar Aasen, Dei gamle Fjelli:

     ...men dei gamle Merkesteinarne dei standa lika traust.

     ...but the old standing stones stand firm as ever.

• “traust” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.