Throat

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Old English throte, throtu, of Germanic origin; related to German Drossel . Compare with throttle.

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From Middle English throte, from Old English þrote, þrota, þrotu(“throat”), from Proto-Germanic *þrutō(“throat”), from Proto-Indo-European *trud-(“to swell, become stiff”). Cognate with Dutch strot(“throat”), German Drossel(“throttle, gorge of game (wild animals)”)(etymology 2), Icelandic þroti(“swelling”), Swedish trut.

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throat (n.)

Old English þrote (implied in þrotbolla "the Adam's apple, larynx," literally "throat boll"), related to þrutian "to swell," from Proto-Germanic *thrut- (source also of Old High German drozza, German Drossel, Old Saxon strota, Middle Dutch strote, Dutch strot "throat"), of uncertain origin. Italian strozza "throat," strozzare "to strangle" are Germanic loan-words. College slang for "competitive student" is 1970s, from cutthroat.