trow

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tɹoʊ/
  • Rhymes: -oʊ

Etymology 1

From Middle English trowen, trouwen, treuwen, treowen, from Old English trēowan, trīewan (“to trust”) and Old English trūwian (“to trust, confide”), from Proto-Germanic *triwwijaną (“to trust”) and Proto-Germanic *trūwijaną (“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”).

Verb

trow (third-person singular simple present trows, present participle trowing, simple past and past participle trowed)

  1. (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?
  2. (archaic or dialectal) To have confidence in, or to give credence to.

Noun

trow (usually uncountable, plural trows)

  1. (archaic or dialectal) Trust or faith.

Etymology 2

Noun

trow (countable and uncountable, plural trows)

  1. (dated, nautical, countable) Any of several flat-bottomed sailing boats used for fishing or for carrying bulk goods
  2. (Scotland, dated) troll

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