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From Old East Norse *þiauβʀ, from Proto-Germanic *þeubaz.

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þiūfær m (genitive þiūfs, plural þiūfar)

  1. (Scania) thief
    • c. 1210, "Stial bondæ þræl nokæt", Scanian Law, chapter 162.
      […] at þæn þræl ær þiufær hans ok fa dom af þingmannum […]
      […] that the slave is his thief and receives a sentence by thingmen […]

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  • Danish: tyv