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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology | 1996 | | © The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology 1996, originally published by Oxford University Press 1996. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

trust confidence XIII; reliability, fidelity XV; thing or person committed to one XVII; (short for t. company) body of traders controlling a business XIX.
So vb. have confidence (in). XIII. of obscure history; early ME. forms of sb., adj., and vb. are trust(e) (beside trüst(e), trist(e), trest(e)), corr. to a possible OE. *tryst, *trystan, and trost(e) (presumably — ON. traust help, support, confidence, traustr firm, strong, confident; parallel forms are MLG., MDu. trost (Du. troost), (O)HG. trōst consolation, Goth. trausti covenant), the formation being ult. that of an abstr. noun on the base *tru- of TRUE, TROW. Hence trusty (-Y1) XIII, trustee (-EE1) XVII.

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