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Where does “þrautaz” come from?

þrautaz (Proto-Germanic) comes from Proto-Indo-European trewd- — to push, to thrust.

Ancestry of “þrautaz”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Indo-Europeantrewd-to push, to thrust

Words derived from “þrautaz”

  • threat
  • biothreat
  • threatful
  • counterthreat
  • nonthreat
  • cyberthreat
  • threatless
  • threatest
  • threatfulness
  • threatsome
  • threatscape
  • threatfully
  • thret
  • thræt
  • threte
  • threat
  • thrat
  • þreatian
  • þrēat
  • þreat
Every word from Proto-Indo-European trewd- →