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also Tritt, Trott, and Trotte. In the non-Teut. languages no Aryan root dre-t is found, though Gr. δρόμος, ‘course,’ Sans. root dram, ‘to run’ (AS. tręm, ‘step’), and the root of the cognates of trampeln seem to be orig. connected with it.

treu, adj., ‘true, faithful,’ from late MidHG. triuwe, for which classical MidHG. has getriuwe (hence ModHG. getreu), OHG. gitriuwi, ‘true, faithful, trusty, loyal.’ Properly a derivative of OHG. triuwa, MidHG. triuwe (ModHG. Treue), f.; getreu, lit. ‘possessing loyalty.’ in OSax. triuwi, Du. trouw, AS. treówe, trŷwe (E. true, truth, to trow, and to trust), Goth. triggws, ‘true.’ Teut. treuwo- (treuwi-?), for pre-Teut. dréwo-, is related to the assumed (see trauen) Aryan root drū̆, ‘to have confidence,’ with which Pruss. druwis, ‘belief,’ is connected. OHG. triuwa, f., ‘fidelity,’ corresponds to OSax. treuwa, AS. treów, ‘fidelity,’ Goth. triggwa, ‘agreement, compact’; with the last signification, Ital. tregua, Fr. trève, ‘armistice,’ borrowed from Teut., are connected.

Trichter (in UpG. and LG. dialects Trachter), m., ‘funnel,’ from the equiv. MidHG. trihter, with older variants tręhter, drahter, OHG. trahtâri, m.; corresponding to Du. trechter, OAS. tructer (Swed. tratt?). Based on MidLat. tractârius, ‘funnel,’ corrupted from the equiv. Lat. trâjectôrium (Lat. trajicere, traicere), ‘to pour from one vessel into another.’ For the contraction comp. Utrecht, Mastricht, from Lat. Ultrajectum, Mosae-Trajectum. The word was borrowed in Ger. coincident with the introduction of Ital. wine-culture (comp. Kelter, Spund, and Wein). As in the case of Kelter, the Romance languages retain few traces of the Lat. word; comp. Rhet. trachuoir, Walloon and Vosges trętœ (the more widely diffused Rom. word for ‘funnel’ is Lat. infundibulum, equiv. to Fr. fondèfle, yet Alban. taftâr, ‘funnel,’ is also based on Lat. *tractârius for trajectorium).

Trieb, m., ‘sprout; instinct, impulse,’ ModHG. only; allied to treiben. Comp. Trift.

triefen, vb., ‘to drop, drip, trickle,’ from MidHG. triefen, OHG. triofan, str. vb., ‘to drop’; corresponding to OSax. driopan, Du. druipen, AS. dreópan, ‘to drop.’ To this are allied the cognates of Traufe, träufeln, and Tropfen. With the Teut. root drū̆p (from pre-Teut. dhrū̆b), OIr. drucht

(base druptu-), ‘dew, dewdrop,’ is also probably connected.

triegen, see trügen.

Trift, f., ‘right of pasturage, common,’ from MidHG. trift, f., ‘pasture,’ lit. ‘place to which something is driven’; not recorded in OHG. Trift (as in the case of Acker) is a relic of the speech of primit. nomad life. MidHG. trift also signifies (as a derivative of the root of treiben) ‘herd, drove, floating (of wood), actions, mode of life’; comp. E. drift and drove.

triftig, adj. ‘drifting; convincing, sound, valid,’ from late MidHG. (rare) triftec (g), ‘striking, pertinent, suitable’; a derivative of treffen.

trillern, vb., ‘to trill, warble,’ ModHG. only, from the equiv. Ital. trillare.

trinken, vb., ‘to drink,’ from the equiv. MidHG. trinken, OHG. trinchan; a common Teut. str. vb.; comp. Goth. drigkan, AS. drincan, E. to drink, Du. drinken, OSax. drinkan. From OTeut. are derived the Romance cognates, Ital. trincare, Fr. trinquer, ‘to touch glasses.’ The str. verbal root drink (Aryan dhreng) is not found in non-Teut.; on the other hand, the Aryan root pô, ‘to drink’ (comp. Sans. pâ, Gr. πω-, Lat. pô-tus, &c.), is wanting in Teut. — Comp. Trank, Trunk.

trippeln, vb., ‘to trip, mince,’ ModHG. only; corresponding to Du. dribbelen. A recent intensive form from treiben or traben.

Tripper, m., ‘gonorrhea,’ a MidG. and LG. word for which older ModHG. Trüpfer, m. (allied to Tropfen), occurs. Comp. E. dripper, allied to drip.

Tritt, m., ‘step, tread,’ from MidHG. trit, m. Allied to treten.

trocken, adj. ‘dry, barren,’ from the equiv. MidHG. trocken, trucken (truchen), OHG. trochan (trucchan); comp. OSax. drucno, drocno, ‘dry.’ Corresponding to the equiv. LG. dreuge, Du. droog (comp. Droge, to which Du. droogte, ‘dryness,’ is allied), AS. drŷge, E. dry (allied to drought), which are derived from cognate roots. With the Teut. root drū̆k, drū̆g, draug, ‘to be dry,’ is also connected OIc. draugr, ‘dry wood.’ A pre-Teut. root dkrū̆ḳ (dhrū̆g) has not yet been found in the other Aryan languages.

Troddel, f., ‘tassel, bob,’ dimin. of MidHG. trâde, OHG. tráda, f. (trâdo, m.), ‘fringe’; MidHG. trôdel (dial. for trâdel) signifies ‘fibre in wood,’ Since the other