threschald

Middle English

Alternative forms

threshold, threshald, threswald, thressald, thraswald, thryswald, treswald, thriswall, threshwell, threshell, thresschell, thraschell, thrashwall, thraschit

Etymology

Middle Scots variant of threschwolde, threscholde, from Old English þresċold, þerxold, þrexwold (“doorsill, entryway”), from Proto-Germanic *þreskudlaz, *þreskūþlijaz, *þreskwaþluz, from Proto-Germanic *þreskaną, *þreskwaną (“to thresh”), from Proto-Indo-European *terh₁- (“to rub, turn”).

Noun

threschald (plural threschalds) (Middle Scots)

a threshold, sill
the ingang or entrance to a house or building
(figurative) the outsetting of something

Usage notes

Often used in the phrase dure (“door”) threschald.

Descendants

Scots: thrashel

Further reading

“threschald”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.

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