dùthrachd

dùrachd, dùthrachd

good wish, wish, diligence, Irish dúthrachd, Old Irish dúthracht, *devo-traktu-s-, *trakkô, press; Anglo-Saxon thringan, German dringen, press forward, English throng (Stokes). Windisch has compared Sanskrit tark, think, which may be the same as tark of tarkus, spindle, Latin torqueo. Verb dùraig.