thresh

From Middle English thrasshen, thresche, threschen, threschyn, threshen, thresshen, tressyn, þreisshe, þresshe, from Old English þerscan, þrexan, from Proto-Germanic þreskaną (“to thresh; to tread”), from Proto-Indo-European terh₁- (“to rub, turn; to drill, pierce”). a doublet of thrash. 2 Cognate with Dutch dorsen (“to thresh; to thrash”), German and lb dreschen (“to thresh; to thrash”), Yiddish דרעשן (“to thresh”), Danish tærske (“to thresh”), Faroese treskja (“to thresh”), Icelandic þreskja (“to thresh”), Norwegian Nynorsk treska, treske, treskja, treskje (“to thrash”), Swedish tröska (“to thresh”), Gothic 𐌸𐍂𐌹𐍃𐌺𐌰𐌽 (“to thresh”), Finnish rehkiä (“to drudge; to toil”); also Welsh taradr (“auger, wimble; awl, borer; drill”), Latin terō (“to rub or triturate; to wear away or wear out, consume; to tread; to press with a mill; to pass, spend”), Greek τρίβω (“to grate; to rub”), Albanian tjerr (“to spin”), be це́рці (“to rub; to polish; to pinch; to grind”), Bulgarian три́я (“to rub; to chafe; to grind”), Czech třít (“to rub; to spawn”), Polish tarć, treć, trzeć, trzyć (“to rub; to shred; to cut; to chafe; to crush; to spawn”), Russian тере́ть (“to rub; to polish; to grind”), Serbo-Croatian тр̏ти, tȑti (“to rub; to cause friction; to scour; to break, crush”), Slovak trieť (“to rub”), Slovene treti (“to crack open; to rub”), Ukrainian те́рти (“to rub; to scrub”), Armenian թուր (“sword”), sog ܕܣܦܪܛܪ (“hand towel”), hit 𒋻𒌑𒍣 (“to perform a round dance, to dance in twisting manner”), xto and txb tärk- (“to allow, let; to let go”), Sanskrit तर्कु (“spindle”).

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