Where does “þurst” come from?

þurst (Old English) comes from Proto-West Germanic þurstu, from Germanic *þurstuz, from Proto-Indo-European ters- — dry.

þurst (Old English): thirst

Definitions

  1. thirst

Ancestry of “þurst”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-West Germanicþurstuthirst
2Germanic*þurstuz—
3Proto-Indo-Europeanters-dry

Words derived from “þurst”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European ters- →Every word from Germanic *þurstuz →Every word from Proto-West Germanic þurstu →