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)

1. a threshold, sill
2. the ingang or entrance to a house or building
3. (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.