Thor

See also: thor, -þor, Þórr, and Þór

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EnglishEdit

Alternative formsEdit

• Þor (rare)

EtymologyEdit

Representing Old Norse Þórr (Swedish Tor); cognate with Old English þunor.

PronunciationEdit

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /θɔː/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /θɔɹ/
• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)

Proper nounEdit

Thor

1. (Norse mythology) The god of thunder.
2. A male given name occasionally borrowed from Scandinavia.

TranslationsEdit

thunder god

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 索爾 (zh) (Suó'ěr)

• Danish: Thor, Tor (da)
• Dutch: Donar
• Estonian: Thor (et)
• Faroese: Tórur m
• Finnish: Thor, Tor (fi)
• Galician: Thor m
• Georgian: თორი (tori)
• German: Thor (de), Donar (de)
• Greek: Θώρ m (Thór)
• Icelandic: Þór (is) m
• Irish: Túr m

• Japanese: トール m (Tōru)
• Korean: 토르 (Toreu)
• Latvian: Tors
• Lithuanian: Toras
• Marathi: थॉर m (thǒra)
• Norwegian: Tor (no)
• Old French: Tur
• Portuguese: Tor (pt) m
• Russian: Тор (ru) (Tor)
• Spanish: Thor m
• Swedish: Tor (sv) c
• Turkish: Tor (tr)
• West Frisian: Tonger

male given name

• Danish: Thor
• Icelandic: Þór (is) m
• Marathi: थॉर m (thǒra)

• Norwegian: Tor (no)
• Swedish: Tor (sv) c

AnagramsEdit

• Roth, hotr, orth-, thro, thro'

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DanishEdit

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /toːr/, [tˢoɐ̯ˀ]
• Rhymes: -oːɐ̯

Proper nounEdit

Thor

1. (Norse mythology) Thor.
2. A male given name, shortened from compound names beginning with Thor-/Tor-.

Related termsEdit

• (male given names): Thorbjørn, Thorkild, Thorvald, Thyge, Toke, Torben, Torsten, Troels, Tue
• (female given names): Thora, Tove

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GermanEdit

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /toːɐ̯/
• Rhymes: -oːɐ̯
• Homophone: Tor

Proper nounEdit

Thor

1. (Norse mythology) Thor, God in Norse mythology.

Related termsEdit

• (male given names): Thorsten, Torben, Torsten

NounEdit

Thor (plural Thore)

1. Obsolete spelling of Tor which was deprecated in 1902 following the Second Orthographic Conference of 1901.
   • 1837, Matthäus Zeheter, Anleitung zur methodischen Behandlung des Unterrichtes in der deutschen Sprache für deutsche Schulen (Zweite, verbesserte und vermehrte Auflage. Regensburg), p.106 (at books.google):

     „So wie sich ein Mohr nicht weiß waschen läßt, so läßt sich auch mancher Thor nicht klug machen.“

Derived termsEdit

• Thorheit

Further readingEdit

• Thor in Duden online

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NorwegianEdit

Proper nounEdit

Thor

1. A male given name, a less common spelling of Tor.

Related termsEdit

• (surnames) Thorsen

ReferencesEdit

• Kristoffer Kruken - Ola Stemshaug: Norsk personnamnleksikon, Det Norske Samlaget, Oslo 1995, →ISBN
• [1] Statistisk sentralbyrå, Namnestatistikk:7 934 males with the given name Thor (compared to 22 416 named Tor) living in Norway on January 1st 2011, with the frequency peak in the 1930s. Accessed on April 29th, 2011.