þurs
See also: Thurs
Middle English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old English þyrs, from Proto-Germanic *þurisaz. Forms with -u- are partly a native development of OE -y-, but are also due to influence from Old Norse þurs.
Pronunciation
Noun
þurs
Descendants
- English: thurse
References
- “thurs(e (n.)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-11-27.
Old Norse
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *þursaz, *þurisaz (“giant, name of the Þ-rune”). Cognate with Old English þyrs, Old Saxon thuris, Old High German durs, duris. See also Finnish turisas, Tursas, turso. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *tur-, *twer- (“to rotate, twirl, swirl, move”).
Pronunciation
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Noun
þurs m (genitive þurs, plural þursar)
- (Norse mythology) a giant, ogre, monster
- a dunce, numskull
- Heilræðavísur, in 1933, H. Pétursson, Heilræði Hallgríms Péturssonar:
- […] en þursinn heimskr þegja hlýtr, […]
- […] but a stupid dunce must remain silent, […]
- Heilræðavísur, in 1933, H. Pétursson, Heilræði Hallgríms Péturssonar:
- the name of the Þ-rune
Declension
Declension of þurs (strong a-stem)
Derived terms
Terms derived from þurs
- þursaberg (“a kind of hone”)
- þursaskegg (“a kind of coral or seaweed”)
Descendants
- Old Danish: tusse, tosse
- Danish: tosse
- Faroese: tussur
- Icelandic: þurs
- Norwegian:
- Swedish: tuss, tusse (dialectal)
- → Scottish Gaelic: tursa
References
- þurs in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, R. Cleasby and G. Vigfússon, Clarendon Press, 1874, at Internet Archive.
- þurs in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, G. T. Zoëga, Clarendon Press, 1910, at Internet Archive.
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