tygi

Old Norse edit

Etymology edit

From Middle Low German tü̂ch, akin to German Zeug (“thing”), English toy.

Noun edit

tygi n

(Late Old Norse) tool, gear
(Late Old Norse) equipment

Descendants edit

Icelandic: tygi
Danish: tøj
- → Faroese: toy
Norwegian: tøy (Bokmål), tøy (Nynorsk) n
Swedish: tyg

References edit

“tygi”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

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