þéttr

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *þinhtaz.

Adjective

þéttr

1. tight, watertight

Descendants

• Faroese: tættur
• Icelandic: þéttur
• Norwegian Bokmål: tett
• Norwegian Nynorsk: tett
• Old Danish: teht, thææth
  • Danish: tæt
• Old Swedish: thætter
  • Swedish: tät

Further reading

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “þéttr”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive