adj.
‘unworthy, ignoble’
(Modern English unthriving)Formed on þryuande.
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 1499
On the sense at Gaw 1499, see Wright 1936: 319.