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Icelandic
Etymology
From Old Norse þjó.
Noun
þjó n (genitive singular þjós, nominative plural þjó) (archaic)
- (the upper part of a thigh)
Declension
Further reading
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
- thigh (in plural usually buttocks)
Declension
Declension of þjó (strong a-stem)
Note that the dative singular -i may be missing.
Descendants
References
- þjó in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, G. T. Zoëga, Clarendon Press, 1910, at Internet Archive.