trouthe
Middle English
/trøːwθ/, /trɔu̯θ/
noun
Definitions
- loyalty (to a cause)
- honesty, honor, troth
- goodness, kindness, integrity
- truth, reality (especially absolute)
- religion, belief system
- righteousness, justness; being right in one's cause
- A pledge, contract, promise or oath.
- A fact or truth.
Etymology
Inherited from Old English trēowþ inherited from Proto-Germanic *triwwiþō (contract, promise, covenant) suffix from Middle English trewe.
Origin
Middle English
trewe
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- antitruth English
- biotruth English
- countertruth English
- half-truth English
- mistruth English
- nontruth English
- post-truth English
- semitruth English
- supertruth English
- tell-truth English
- true English
- truth English
- truthaphobia English
- truthbearer English
- truthen English
- truther English
- truthful English
- truthify English
- truthless English
- truthlike English
- truthly English
- truthmaker English
- truthmaking English
- truthness English
- truthology English
- truthseeker English
- truthsome English
- truthteller English
- truthtelling English
- truthward English
- truthwards English
- truthy English
- untruth English
- *drū- Proto-Indo-European
- *triwwiþō Proto-Germanic
- treowþ Old English
- trēowe Old English
- trēowþ Old English
- trīewe Old English
- trewe Middle English
- trewely Middle English
- troth Middle English
- untrewe Middle English
- tryggð Old Norse
- trygð Old Norse
- drue Yola