trough
/tɹɒf/ · noun
Meaning
- A long, narrow container, open on top, for feeding or watering animals.
- Any similarly shaped container.
- A rectangular container used for washing or rinsing clothes.
- A short, narrow canal designed to hold water until it drains or evaporates.
- An undivided metal urinal (plumbing fixture)
- A gutter under the eaves of a building; an eaves trough.
- A channel for conveying water or other farm liquids (such as milk) from place to place by gravity; any ‘U’ or ‘V’ cross-sectioned irrigation channel.
- A long, narrow depression between waves or ridges; the low portion of a wave cycle.
- A low turning point or a local minimum of a business cycle.
- A linear atmospheric depression associated with a weather front.
- To eat in a vulgar style, as if from a trough.
- Alternative letter-case form of trough.
Etymology / origin
PIE word *dóru From Middle English trogh, from Old English troh, trog (“a trough, tub, basin, vessel for containing liquids or other materials”), from Proto-West Germanic *trog, from Proto-Germanic *trugą, *trugaz, from Proto-Indo-European *drukós, enlargement of *dóru (“tree”). See also West Frisian trôch, Dutch trog, German Trog, Danish trug, Swedish tråg; also Middle Irish drochta (“wooden basin”), Old Armenian տարգալ (targal, “ladle, spoon”). More at tree.
- տարգալ(Old Armenian)→
- drochta(mga)→
- tråg(Swedish)→
- trug(Danish)→
- Trog(German)→
- trog(Dutch)→
- trôch(fy)→
- *drukós(ine-pro)→
- *trugą(gem-pro)→
- *trog(gmw-pro)→
- troh(Old English)→
- trogh(Middle English)→
- trough (English)
- Relations: inh, inh, inh, inh, inh, cog, cog, cog, cog, cog, cog, cog
Related words
trogh(Middle English)troh(Old English)*trog(gmw-pro)*trugą(gem-pro)*drukós(ine-pro)trôch(fy)trog(Dutch)Trog(German)trug(Danish)tråg(Swedish)drochta(mga)տարգալ(Old Armenian)tròg(Cimbrian)Truh(East Central German)trogue(English)trogo(Esperanto)droch(Ladin)Trach(Luxembourgish)trau(Norwegian Nynorsk)trȫk(Vilamovian)
Descendant words
- tròg(Cimbrian) (cog)
- trog(Dutch) (cog)
- Truh(East Central German) (cog)
- trogue(English) (cog)
- trogo(Esperanto) (bor)
- Trog(German) (cog)
- droch(Ladin) (cog)
- Trach(Luxembourgish) (cog)
- trau(Norwegian Nynorsk) (cog)
- tråg(Swedish) (cog)
- trȫk(Vilamovian) (cog)
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