Infinitive
thraw
Participles
| Present | thrawin |
| Past | thrawt |
Present
thraws
Past
thrawt
Verbs conjugated like thraw
sairch,
souder,
flauchter,
upstraucht,
yammer,
bauther,
backspeir,
backspeer,
blikken,
blether,
daunton,
breenge,
scunner,
superexpend,
scrieve,
scowder,
scooder,
disable,
besmarten,
souther, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Etymology
From Middle English thrawen, from Old English þrāwan (“to turn, twist, curl, rack, torture, turn around”), from Proto-West Germanic *þrāan, from Proto-Germanic *þrēaną (“to twist, turn”), from Proto-Indo-European *terh₁- (“to rub, rub by twisting, twist, turn”). Cognate with English throe, throw. See: Proto-Germanic '
*þrēaną', English '
throe'.
Verbs referencing "thraw"
English
throw, Latin
tero.
Translations