Tryst Definition
trĭst
trysts
noun
trysts
An appointment made secretly by lovers to meet at a specified time and place.
Webster's New World
Any such meeting.
Webster's New World
The place of such a meeting.
Webster's New World
verb
trysts
To keep a tryst.
Webster's New World
(intransitive) To make a tryst; to agree to meet at a place.
Wiktionary
Origin of Tryst
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From Middle English tryst, trist, a variant (due to the Old Norse verb treysta (“to make safe, secure")) of trust, trost, from Old Norse traust (“confidence, trust, security, help, shelter, safe abode"), from Proto-Germanic *traustÄ… (“trust, shelter"), from Proto-Indo-European *deru-, *dreu-, *drÅ«- (“to be firm, be solid"). More at trust.
From Wiktionary
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Middle English trist from Old French triste a waiting place (in hunting) deru- in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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