Etymology
1. From Middle English trowen, trouwen, treuwen, treowen, trouen, from Old English trēowan, trīewan (“to trust”) and Old English trūwian (“to trust, confide”), from Proto-Germanic *trewwāną (“to trust”) and Proto-Germanic *trūwāną (“to trust”); both from Proto-Indo-European *drew- (“faithful, true”).
2. Akin to Scots trow, trew (“to believe, trust, confide in, prove”), Dutch trouwen (“to wed, marry”), German trauen (“to trust, marry”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål and Swedish tro (“to believe, think”), Norwegian Nynorsk tru (“to believe, think”), Icelandic trúa (“to trust, believe, believe in”). See: Old English Nouns '
trēowan', Old English Nouns '
trūwian', Swedish Nouns '
tro', Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns '
tru', Icelandic Nouns '
trúa'.
Verbs referencing "trow"
Norwegian Bokmål Nouns
tro.