Etymology

Always derived from ON, cp. the OIcel wk. v. þrýsta 'thrust, press, force, compell' < PGmc *þrūstjan- (cp. OHG drūsten 'thrust'). No cognate v. survives in OE, but a pp. ā-þrūten 'swollen' from the related strong v. *þrūtan (cp. OIcel þrútinn 'swollen, oppressed' and further Lat trūdō 'push') is attested. OE geþryscan 'press, oppress' is usually also related to these verbs.

PGmc Ancestor

*þrūstjan-

Proposed ON Etymon (OIcel representative)

þrýsta 'thrust, press, force, compel'
(ONP þrýsta (vb.))

Other Scandinavian Reflexes

Far trýsta, Icel þrýsta, Norw trysta, ODan tryste, OSw trysta, Sw dial trysta

OE Cognate

cp. geþryscan 'press, oppress', ā-þrūten (pp.) 'swollen'

Phonological and morphological markers

Summary category

B2

Attestation

Common and widespread from c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9) onwards.

Occurrences in the Gersum Corpus

WA 554, 773*, 1326, etc.

The A MS of WA has variant reading <threschis> at 1326.

Bibliography

MED thristen (v.) , OED thrust (v.) , HTOED , HTOED , Bj. 224, de Vries þrýsta, Mag. þrýsta, Orel *þrūstjanan, AEW geđryscan, DOE ā-þrūten