- þerxold
- m (-es/-as) threshold, border, limit
Old to modern English dictionary. 2013.
þerxold
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threshold — O.E. þrescold, þærscwold, þerxold doorsill, point of entering, first element related to O.E. þrescan (see THRESH (Cf. thresh)), with its original sense of tread, trample. Second element of unknown origin and much transformed in all the Germanic… … Etymology dictionary
