truge

truge f or m (definite singular truga or trugen, indefinite plural truger, definite plural trugene)

1. (footwear) a snowshoe

   Synonym: snøsko

• “truge” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Inherited from Old Norse [Term?]. Compare Icelandic þrúga f, Old Norse þrjúgr m, Swedish tryga f (“snowshoe for a horse”) and dialectal Swedish tryg m.

The original sense was horse snowshoe, while a human snowshoe was called manntruge, but in later time, when the horse snowshoes became less common, the term became assosiated with human snowshoes. See more at manntruge.

First attested in 1646 by Christen Jensøn as Tryer.

• (non-standard since 2012): truga m, trug m
• true (Romerike, Austfold)
• tryge, tryve (Hallingdal, Setesdal, Telemark)

truge f (definite singular truga, indefinite plural truger, definite plural trugene)

1. clipping of manntruge (“human snowshoe”)
2. (obsolete) snowshoe for a horse
3. basket on a ski pole that prevents it from going too deep

• ringtruge

From Old Norse þrúga.

• true, trua
• truga (a-infinitive)

truge (present tense trugar, past tense truga, past participle truga, passive infinitive trugast, present participle trugande, imperative truge/trug)

1. to threaten

• trugsel m, trussel m

• “truge” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
• “truga” in Ivar Aasen (1873) Norsk Ordbog med dansk Forklaring
• Torleiv Hannaas (1915), Ældre norske Sprogminder : Christen Jensøns Den Norske Dictionarium (in Norwegian Nynorsk), page 88