þerra

• IPA^(key): /ˈθɛrːa/

  Rhymes: -ɛrːa

þerra (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative þerraði, supine þerrað)

1. (transitive, with accusative) to dry, to make dry

• þorna
• þurr
• þurrka

þerra f (genitive þerru)

1. a towel

   Synonym: þurka

   • 800s, Hávamál, verse 4

     Vats es þǫrf / þęims til verðar kømr,
     þęrru ok þjóðlaðar; […]

     Of water is a need for the one who comes to a meal; of a towel and of excellent hospitality.

From Proto-Germanic *þarzijaną (“to cause to dry”), from Proto-Indo-European *torséyeti, from the root *ters- (“dry”). The Proto-Germanic *þarzijaną would originally have been a causative of the class 3 strong verb *þersaną, of which there is no known descendant in Old Norse.

þerra (singular past indicative þerði, plural past indicative þerðu, past participle þerðr)

1. (transitive, with accusative) to make, cause to dry

   Synonym: þurka

• þerrir m (“drying; dry weather”)
• þurr (“dry”)

• Icelandic: þerra
• Norwegian: terra, terre

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