thrift
English
/θɹɪft/
noun
Definitions
- (uncountable) The characteristic of using a minimum of something (especially money).
- (countable) A savings bank.
- (countable) Any of various plants of the genus Armeria, particularly .
- (obsolete) Success and advance in the acquisition of property; increase of worldly goods; gain; prosperity; profit.
- (obsolete) Vigorous growth, as of a plant.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English thrift borrowed from Old Norse þrift (prosperity, thriving condition) suffix from English thrive root from Proto-Indo-European *terp- (satisfy, satiate).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*terp-
Gloss
satisfy, satiate
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- ding English
- dingthrift English
- slip English
- slipthrift English
- spend English
- spendthrift English
- spendthriftness English
- thrifter English
- thriftful English
- thriftfully English
- thriftily English
- thriftiness English
- thrifting English
- thriftless English
- thriftlessly English
- thriftlessness English
- thriftly English
- thriftster English
- thrifty English
- thrive English
- thriver English
- unthrift English
- unthrifty English
- unthrive English
- waste English
- wastethrift English
- tarvita Finnish
- τέρπω Ancient Greek
- *terp- Proto-Indo-European
- *trep- Proto-Indo-European
- *tr̥p-tó-s Proto-Indo-European
- *térp-ti-s, *tr̥p-téy-s Proto-Indo-European
- *þarbō Proto-Germanic
- *þarbōną Proto-Germanic
- *þraibijaną Proto-Germanic
- *þurbaną Proto-Germanic
- *þurfaną Proto-Germanic
- *þurftiz Proto-Germanic
- तृप्ति Sanskrit
- thrift Middle English
- thrifteles Middle English
- thrifty Middle English
- thryven Middle English
- unthrift Middle English
- þreftely Middle English
- þarfligr Old Norse
- þarfna Old Norse
- þarfnan Old Norse
- þarfr Old Norse
- þrift Old Norse
- þurfa Old Norse
- þurfast Old Norse
- þurftugr Old Norse
- þurftuligr Old Norse
- þǫrf Old Norse
- þǫrfgi Old Norse