þræll

From Old Norse þræll, from Proto-Germanic *þragilaz, *þrahilaz, *þrēhilaz, cognate with Old High German drigil (“servant”) and Gothic 𐌸𐍂𐌰𐌲𐌾𐌰𐌽 (þragjan, “to run”). From the root *þreh-, *þreg-, *þrag- ‘to run’, from Proto-Indo-European *trāgʰ- (“pull, drag, race, run”).

• IPA^(key): /θraitl/, [θraitl̥]
• Rhymes: -aitl

þræll m (genitive singular þræls, nominative plural þrælar)

1. a slave

• Þrælastríðið

• ambátt
• leysingi

From Proto-Germanic *þragilaz, *þrahilaz, *þrēhilaz, cognate with Old High German drigil (“servant”) and Gothic 𐌸𐍂𐌰𐌲𐌾𐌰𐌽 (þragjan, “to run”). From the root *þreh-, *þreg-, *þrag- ‘to run’, from Proto-Indo-European *trāgʰ- (“pull, drag, race, run”).

þræll m (genitive þræls, plural þrælar)

1. slave, thrall

• ambátt (“female slave, bondwoman, handmaid”)

• þrælka (“enthrall, enslave”)