From Old Norse þjóta, from Proto-Germanic *þeutaną.

• IPA^(key): /ˈθjouːta/

  Rhymes: -ouːta

þjóta (strong verb, third-person singular past indicative þaut, third-person plural past indicative þutu, supine þotið)

1. (intransitive) to rush, to dash
   • Á Sprengisandi (“On Sprengisandur”) by Grímur Thomsen

     Þey þey! þey þey! þaut í holti tófa,

     þurran vill hún blóði væta góm,

     eða líka einhver var að hóa

     undarlega digrum karlaróm;

     útilegumenn í Ódáðahraun

     eru kannske að smala fé á laun.

     Hush, hush, hush, hush,

     a vixen dashed in the hillock,

     wanting to quench her thirst with blood,

     then, there was also someone calling,

     with a strangely deep man's voice;

     Outlaws, to the Ódáðahraun (a vast, desolate lava field in the Icelandic highlands)

     are perhaps secretly driving sheep.

2. (intransitive, of the wind) to whistle, sing

   Synonym: hvína

   Vindurinn þýtur og þrumurnar dynja.

   The wind whistles and the thunders roar.

• þjóta úr einu í annað (“to rush from one thing to another, to change subjects fast”)
• þjóta upp (“to grow fast”)
• þjóta á fætur (“to jump up, to leap out of bed”)
• þjóta af stað (“to dash off, to tear off”)
• þota
• láta sem vind um eyru þjóta, láta eins og vind um eyru þjóta

• Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon (1989) Íslensk orðsifjabók, Reykjavík: Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, →ISBN (Available at Málið.is under the “Eldri orðabækur” tab.)

From Proto-Germanic *þeutaną.

þjóta (singular past indicative þaut, plural past indicative þutu, past participle þotinn)

1. to emit a loud and whistling sound

   á þaut af þjósti

   a river roared with fury

2. to rush

• Icelandic: þjóta
• Norwegian:
  • Norwegian Bokmål: tyte
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: tyta, tyte
• Old Swedish: þiuta
  • Swedish: tjuta

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