getruwian

From Proto-West Germanic *gatrūōn, variant of *gatrūēn; by surface analysis, ġe- +‎ trūwian. Cognate with Old Saxon gitruoian, gitrūōn, Old Dutch gitrūon, Old High German gitrūēn, gitrūwēn.

• IPA^(key): /jeˈtruː.wi.ɑn/

ġetrūwian

1. to trust, hope, believe
   • late 9th century, translation of Orosius’ History Against the Pagans

     Þā wæs Donua sēo ēa swā swīþe oferforen, þæt hīe ġetrūwedon þæt hīe ofer þām īse faran mehten, ac hīe mǣst ealle þǣr forwurdon.

     Then the River Danube was so thickly frozen over that they believed they could travel over the ice, but most all of them perished there.

2. to make a treaty

• ġetrūgian

• Joseph Bosworth, T. Northcote Toller (1898) “ge-trúwian”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.