thrall
/θɹoːl/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.80 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A surname.
Example Sentences
- "My father was always a thrall to alcohol."
- "My servant, which that is my thrall by right"
- "Hereat its Marid appeared and said to him, "Adsum! thy thrall between thy hands is come: ask of me whatso thou wantest.""
- "And there were household slaves in golden collars that burned of a plenty there with her, and nine female thralls, and eight male slaves of the Angles that were of gentle birth and battle-captured."
- "Today's kids are in thrall to their phones."
- "Go: release him from the thrall of Hautia."
Etymology
From Middle English thral, thralle, threl, threlle, from Old English þrǣl (“thrall, slave, servant”), from Old Norse þræll (“slave”), from Proto-Germanic *þrahilaz, *þragilaz, *þrigilaz (“runner, gofer, servant”), from Proto-Indo-European *tregʰ- (“to pull, drag, race, run”), possibly a variant of *dʰregʰ- (“to run”); related to Gothic 𐌸𐍂𐌰𐌲𐌾𐌰𐌽 (þragjan), Old English þrǣġan (“to run”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: thral, þrǣl, þræll, *þrahilaz, *tregʰ-, thrallen
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /θɹoːl/
- British English: /θɹɔːl/
Usage
Inflected Forms
thralls (plural)
more thrall (comparative)
most thrall (superlative)
thralls (present, singular)
thralling (participle, present)
thralled (participle, past)
thralled (past)