Thor

See also: thor, Tor, -þor, Þórr, and Þór

English

Alternative forms

• Þor (rare)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /θɔː/

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

Proper noun

Thor

1. (Norse mythology) A hammer-wielding god associated with thunder, lightning, storms, sacred groves and trees, strength, and the protection of mankind.
2. A male given name from the Germanic languages occasionally borrowed from Scandinavia.

Derived terms

• thorate
• thorian
• thoriate
• thoric
• thorite
• thorium
• thoron
• thorotrast

 

Translations

thunder god

• Bengali: থর (thôr)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 索爾 (zh) (Suó'ěr)

• Danish: Thor, Tor (da)
• Dutch: Donar
• Esperanto: Toro
• Estonian: Thor (et)
• Faroese: Tórur m
• Finnish: Thor, Tor (fi)
• French: Thor (fr) m

  Old French: Tur

• 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)
• Latin: Iuppiter (la) m, Thōrus m (Medieval)
• Latvian: Tors
• Lithuanian: Toras
• Marathi: थॉर m (thŏr)
• Norwegian: Tor (no)
• Old English: Þunor m
• 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 (thŏr)

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

Anagrams

• Roth, hotr, orth-, thro, thro'

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Danish

Pronunciation

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

Proper noun

Thor

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

Related terms

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

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German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /toːɐ̯/

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• Rhymes: -oːɐ̯
• Homophone: Tor

Etymology 1

Old Norse Þórr, from Proto-Germanic *Þunraz. Doublet of Donar

Proper noun

Thor m (genitive Thors)

1. (Norse mythology) Thor, a hammer-wielding god in Norse mythology

Related terms

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

Etymology 2

See at Tor.

Noun

Thor m (genitive Thors or Thores, 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.“

Declension

Declension of Thor

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Thor	die	Thore
genitive	eines	des	Thores, Thors	der	Thore
dative	einem	dem	Thor, Thore1	den	Thoren
accusative	einen	den	Thor	die	Thore

¹Now uncommon, see notes

Derived terms

• Thorheit

Further reading

• “Thor” in Duden online

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Norwegian

Proper noun

Thor

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

Related terms

• (surnames) Thorsen

References

• 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.