Etymograph

English

thole

Thole comes from Old English þolian ‘to suffer, endure’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *telh₂-.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*telh₂-‘to bear, suffer’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*þulāną‘to suffer’reconstructed
  3. Proto-West Germanicc. 200–500 CE*þolēn‘to bear, to endure’reconstructed
  4. Old Englishc. 450–1150þolian‘to suffer, endure’
  5. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500thōle
  6. Englishearliest quotation 1705thole

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*telh₂-‘to bear, suffer’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*þulāną‘to suffer’reconstructed
  3. Proto-West Germanicc. 200–500 CE*þolēn‘to bear, to endure’reconstructed
  4. Old Englishc. 450–1150þolian‘to suffer, endure’
  5. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500thōle
  6. Englishearliest quotation 1705thole

Earliest quotation: 1705, William Forbes, Concerning the Burdens that Tiends are Liable to: “Nor was long Poſſeſſion in molendino regio, of receiving…”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *telh₂- ‘to bear, suffer’

talent, atlas, toll, tolerance, tolerate, tolerant, intolerable, tolerable, toleration, tellurium, extol, 16 more

Another origin of thole

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*tūl-reconstructed
  2. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*þullaz‘thole, rowlock’reconstructed
  3. Proto-West Germanicc. 200–500 CE*þoll‘thole, rowlock’reconstructed
  4. Old Englishc. 450–1150þol‘oar-pin, rowlock’
  5. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500thō̆le‘a peg’
  6. Englishtodaythole

The word is cognate with Danish told (‘thole’), Dutch dol (‘thole; oarlock’), Low German Doll (‘thole; oarlock’).

Another origin of thole

  1. Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEθόλοςthólos‘dome, vault’
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEtholus‘cupola, dome, rotunda’
  3. Englishtodaythole

Today it means

verb To suffer.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *telh₂- / thole

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