From Old Norse traust "help, confidence, protection, support", from Proto-Germanic abstract noun traustam (source also of Old Frisian trast, Dutch troost "comfort, consolation," Old High German trost "trust, fidelity," German Trost "comfort, consolation," Gothic trausti "agreement, alliance"), from Proto-Germanic treuwaz, source of Old English treowian "to believe, trust," and treowe "faithful, trusty," from PIE root deru- "be firm, solid, steadfast."
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