þryuande

adj., n. (pres. ptcp.)

‘abundant, hearty, worthy’

(Modern English thriving)

Etymology

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

Attestation

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.

Bibliography

MED thrīven (v.) , OED thriving (adj.) , HTOED , Dance þryuande