þjór
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Icelandic[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old Norse þjórr, from Proto-Germanic *þeuraz, from Proto-Indo-European *táwros. Cognate with Faroese tjórur, Danish tyr and Swedish tjur, and more distantly with Ancient Greek ταῦρος (taûros) and Latin taurus. Doublet of tarfur, which was borrowed from Old Irish.
Noun[edit]
þjór m (genitive singular þjórs, nominative plural þjórar)
Declension[edit]
declension of þjór
Further reading[edit]
- “þjór” in the Dictionary of Modern Icelandic (in Icelandic) and ISLEX (in the Nordic languages)
Categories:
- Icelandic terms inherited from Old Norse
- Icelandic terms derived from Old Norse
- Icelandic terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
- Icelandic terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Icelandic terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European
- Icelandic terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Icelandic lemmas
- Icelandic nouns
- Icelandic masculine nouns
- Icelandic countable nouns
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