adj., n. (pres. ptcp.)
‘abundant, hearty, worthy’
(Modern English thriving)The pres. ptcp. of þryue (v.).
PGmc Ancestor
*þrīfan-
Proposed ON Etymon (OIcel representative)
þrífa-sk ‘to thrive’
(ONP þrífa (vb., C))
Other Scandinavian Reflexes
Far tríva, trívast, Icel þrífa, þrívast, Norw triva, Dan trives, MSw thriva
OE Cognate
Phonological and morphological markers
Summary category
B1c
Largely N (esp. in alliterative poetry) in the ME.
Occurrences in the Gersum Corpus
Gaw 1980; Cl 751
See Clark, ‘On Certain’, pp. 390–1, on suggested differences in sense between the instances of þryuande and þryuandely (adv.) in Gaw and Cl.