trow

== English == === Etymology 1 === From Middle English trowen, trouwen, treuwen, treowen, trouen, from Old English trēowan, trīewan (“to trust”) and Old English trūwian (“to trust, confide”), from Proto-Germanic *trewwāną (“to trust”) and Proto-Germanic *trūwāną (“to trust”); both from Proto-Indo-European *drew- (“faithful, true”). Akin to Scots trow, trew (“to believe, trust, confide in, prove”), Dutch trouwen (“to wed, marry”), German trauen (“to trust, marry”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål and Swedish tro (“to believe, think”), Norwegian Nynorsk tru (“to believe, think”), Icelandic trúa (“to trust, believe, believe in”). ==== Pronunciation ==== (General American) IPA(key): /tɹoʊ/ (UK) IPA(key): /tɹəʊ/ Rhymes: -əʊ Homophone: throw (th-stopping) ==== Verb ==== trow (third-person singular simple present trows, present participle trowing, simple past and past participle trowed) (archaic or dialectal) To trust or believe. 1567, Arthur Golding: Ovid's Metamorphoses; Bk. 2 lines 527-9: ...Sure (he said) my wife shall never know Of this escape, and if she do, I know the worst I trow She can but chide, shall feare of chiding make me to forslow? (archaic or dialectal) To have confidence in, or to give credence to. ==== Noun ==== trow (usually uncountable, plural trows) (archaic or dialectal) Trust or faith. === Etymology 2 === ==== Noun ==== trow (countable and uncountable, plural trows) (dated, nautical, countable) Any of several flat-bottomed sailing boats used for fishing or for carrying bulk goods. === Etymology 3 === From Shetlandic and Orcadian Scots trow, from Norn *drou, *drau (compare 18th c. Norwegian drau, modern drov, drauv), from Old Norse draugr (“malevolent revenant”); along the variation drow, intermixed with Norn troll, from Old Norse trǫll (“troll, malevolent supernatural being”), a partial synonym to draugr. L-vocalisation occurred in the early 15th century in Middle Scots, so trolly, knolls probably became *trowie, knowes around this time. ==== Noun ==== trow (plural trows) (Orkney, Shetland, mythology, dated) Alternative form of drow. === Etymology 4 === Shortened form of trousers. ==== Pronunciation ==== IPA(key): /tɹaʊ/ Rhymes: -aʊ ==== Noun ==== trow (uncountable) (dated, uncountable) Used chiefly in the expression drop trow. === Anagrams === ROTW, rowt, wort == Middle English == === Etymology 1 === ==== Noun ==== trow alternative form of tre === Etymology 2 === ==== Noun ==== trow alternative form of trogh