trold

From Danish trold.

trold (plural trolds)

1. (mythology, folklore) A troll.
   • 1885, Charlotte S. Sidgwick, chapter II, in The Story of Norway, London: Rivingtons, page 19:

     They were clever smiths, and made things of iron and gold. That is, the little dwarf Trolds did, for they could burrow about, and find the ironstone and the gold-ore in the rocks. The big Trolds were stupid and lazy generally. They sat on mountains, and threw bits of rock about.

   • 1894, Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen, Gunnar: A Tale of Norse Life, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, page 171:

     If Atle had believed in trolds and elf-maids, he should surely have supposed that Lars must have seen something of the kind on his night walk in the forest.

From Old Danish troll, trǫll, from Old Norse troll, from Proto-Germanic *truzlą, from Proto-Indo-European *dreh₂-.

• IPA^(key): /trɔl/, [tˢʁ̥ʌlˀ]
• Rhymes: -ɒl

trold c (singular definite trolden, plural indefinite trolde)

1. (folklore) troll (supernatural being of the male gender)
2. ogre
3. spitfire

• “trold” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “trold” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog