triggwa

Part of speech: noun

Gender: feminine

Stem: -ō-

covenant; faithfulness; testament

Etymology

[← Prot-Germ tre(w)wō; OE tréow "faithfulness; trust; testament"; O Fris triūwe, triōwe; O Sax treuwa; Dt trouw "faithfulness"; OHG triuwa "faithfulness" (Mod G Treue)]

Concordance

triggwa - Nom, sing - Rom. XI, 27; Cor. I, XI, 25
triggwos - Nom, Acc, pl - Luk. I, 72; Rom. IX, 4; Cor. II, III, 6; III, 14; Galat. IV, 24

Paradigm

1.1.2. (a)

nouns, -ō- stem, feminine gender giba (gift)
	singular	plural
nominative	giba	gibōs
genitive	gibōs	gibō
dative	gibai	gibōm
accusative	giba	gibōs

The declension of several nouns ending in -wa (frijaþwa (love); triggwa (faithfulness; covenant); bandwa (sign); fijaþwa (hatred, enmity); ubizwa (porch, portico); wulwa (robbery)) is identical to that of [-o-] stem nouns. These nouns are sometimes sub-categorized as the [-wo-] stem subtype of the [-o-] stem declension of Gothic nouns.

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