þjó

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *þeuhą, whence also Old English þēoh, Old Saxon thio, Dutch dij, Old High German dioh; ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *tewk-, cognate with Russian тук (tuk, “animal fat”), Lithuanian tukti (“become fat”).

Noun

þjó n

  1. thigh (in plural usually buttocks)

Declension
  Declension of þjó (strong a-stem)
neuter singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative þjó þjóit þjó þjóin
accusative þjó þjóit þjó þjóin
dative þjó, þjói þjónu, þjóinu þjóm þjónum
genitive þjós þjósins þjóa þjóanna
Note that the dative singular -i may be missing.

Descendants
  • Icelandic: þjó n
  • Faroese: tjógv n
  • Norn: tjug n
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: tjo n

References
  • þjó in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, G. T. Zoëga, Clarendon Press, 1910, at Internet Archive.
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