tro
Danish
/troːˀ/
noun
Definitions
- belief
- confidence
- trust
- faith
Etymology
Inherited from Old Danish tro inherited from Old Norse trú borrowed from Middle Low German trouwe derived from Proto-Germanic *trewwō (fidelity, pledge).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*trewwō
Gloss
fidelity, pledge
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- truce English
- trucebreaker English
- truceless English
- trucial English
- untruced English
- treuga Latin
- Nibelungentreue German
- Rechtstreue German
- Treue German
- Untreue German
- treulos German
- *drewo- Proto-Indo-European
- tro Norwegian Bokmål
- tru Norwegian Bokmål
- *trewwō Proto-Germanic
- *trūwō Proto-Germanic
- trēowa Old English
- trewes Middle English
- trú Old Norse
- vantrú Old Norse
- autoritet Danish
- autoritetstro Danish
- betro Danish
- heks Danish
- heksetro Danish
- over Danish
- overtro Danish
- trolig Danish
- troværdig Danish
- utrolig Danish
- vantro Danish
- værdig Danish
- trú Icelandic
- triuwa Old High German
- trúgv Faroese
- triuwe Middle High German
- 𐍄𐍂𐌹𐌲𐌲𐍅𐌰 Gothic
- *treuwu gmw-pro
- trouwe Middle Low German
- truwe Middle Low German
- treuwa Old Saxon
- trō, tro Old Swedish
- tro Old Danish