þjófr
Old Norse
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Norse *ᚦᛖᚢᛒᚨᛉ (*þeubaʀ) (attested in ᛗᚨᚱᛁᚦᛖᚢᛒᚨᛉ (mariþeubaʀ)), from Proto-Germanic *þeubaz.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editþjófr m (genitive þjófs, plural þjófar)
Declension
edit Declension of þjófr (strong a-stem)
Derived terms
edit- þjófa (“to call one a thief”)
- þjóflaun f (“thievish concealment of a thing”)
- þjófligr (“thievish”)
- þjófnaðr m (“theft”)
- þjófsaugu n pl (“thief's eyes”)
- þjófskapr m (“theft”)
- þjófsnafn n (“the name of a thief”)
- þjófsnara n (“thief's halter”)
- þjófsnautr m (“a partaker with thieves”)
- þjófstolinn (“stolen (by a thief / thieves)”)
- þjófsǫk f (“a charge or accusation of theft”)
Descendants
edit- Icelandic: þjófur
- Faroese: tjóvur
- Norwegian Nynorsk: tjov, tjuv; (dialectal) tjóv’e, tju, tjyv
- → Norwegian Bokmål: tjuv
- Elfdalian: tjuov
- Old Swedish: þiūver
- Old Danish: thiūf, (Scanian) þiufær
- Old Gutnish: þiaufr
- Gutnish: töiv
References
edit- þjófr in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, G. T. Zoëga, Clarendon Press, 1910, at Internet Archive.