Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗Confidence in or reliance on some person or quality. · Dependence upon something in the future; hope. · Confidence in the future payment for goods or services supplied; credit. · That which is committed or entrusted; something received in confidence; a charge.
Ellipsis of trust me, often used sarcastically or self-mockingly.
To place confidence in, to rely on, to confide in. · To have faith in; to rely on for continuing support or aid. · To give credence to; to believe; to credit. · To hope confidently; to believe (usually with a phrase or infinitive clause as the object)
Secure, safe. · Faithful, dependable. · of or relating to a trust.
From Middle English trust, trost (“trust, protection”). Long considered a borrowing from Old Norse traust (“confidence, help, protection”), from Proto-Germanic *traustą, but the root vocalism is incompatible, so trust has come to be considered a reflex of an unattested Old English *trust, from a rare zero-grade Proto-Germanic variant of the same root also attested in Middle High German getrüste (“host”). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *deru- (“be firm, hard, solid”). Cognates Cognate with Saterland Frisian Traast (“comfort, solace”), West Frisian treast (“comfort, consolation, solace”), Dutch troost (“comfort, consolation”), German Trost (“comfort, consolation”), Low German Troost (“comfort, consolation”), Luxembourgish Trouscht (“consolation”), Danish trøst (“comfort, solace”), Icelandic traust (“faith, trust; confidence”), Norwegian Nynorsk trøst, trøyst (“consolation”), Swedish tröst (“comfort, consolation”), Gothic 𐍄𐍂𐌰𐌿𐍃𐍄𐌹 (trausti, “covenant, pact”). Doublet of tryst. More at true, tree.
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- Inherited-form mentiontrustenm · trust, protection
- Cognate mentiontraustnon · confidence, help, protection
- Cognate mention*traustągem-pro
- Inherited-form mention*trustang
- Cognate mentiongetrüstegmh · host
- Derivation mention*deru-ine-pro · be firm, hard, solid
- Cognate mentionTraaststq · comfort, solace
- Cognate mentiontreastfy · comfort, consolation, solace
- Cognate mentiontroostnl · comfort, consolation
- Cognate mentionTrostde · comfort, consolation
- Cognate mentionTroostnds · comfort, consolation
- Cognate mentionTrouschtlb · consolation
- Cognate mentiontrøstda · comfort, solace
- Cognate mentiontraustis · faith, trust; confidence
- Cognate mentiontrøstnn
- Cognate mentiontröstsv · comfort, consolation
- Cognate mention𐍄𐍂𐌰𐌿𐍃𐍄𐌹got · covenant, pact
- Doublet mentiontrysten
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