thrist

English

Noun

thrist

Obsolete form of thirst.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, 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.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for thrist in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

Anagrams

T-shirt, t-shirt, thirst

Welsh

Adjective

thrist

Aspirate mutation of trist (“sad”).

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
trist	drist	nhrist	thrist
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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Etymology

From Middle English trist, from Old Norse traust.

Noun

thrist

trust

References

Jacob Poole (1867), 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, page 72

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