þrjóta

From Old Norse þrjóta, from Proto-Germanic *uzþreutaną.

• IPA^(key): /ˈθrjouːta/

  Rhymes: -ouːta

þrjóta (strong verb, third-person singular past indicative þraut, third-person plural past indicative non-existent, supine þrotið)

1. to dwindle, be used up, exhausted, spent
2. (impersonal, with accusative) to be at an end
3. (impersonal, with accusative) to become exhausted (be unable to continue, having spent one’s energy, etc.)

• þrjóta erindið (to give up from exhaustion)

From Proto-Germanic *þreutaną. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *trewd- (“to harass”).

þrjóta (singular past indicative þraut, plural past indicative þrutu, past participle þrotinn)

1. (impersonal, with accusative) to fail, come to an end, run out
2. (transitive, with accusative) to fail

   en er hann þraut ørendit

   when breath failed him

3. (transitive, with accusative) to run out of

   Hrapp þraut vistir í hafi

   Hrapp ran out of food at sea

4. (intransitive) to become exhausted, fail

   mara þraut óra

   our steeds were exhausted

• þraut f
• þreyta (þreyttr (“tired”))
• þrot n (“exhaustion”)
• þrotna

• Icelandic: þrjóta
• Faroese: tróta
• Norwegian:
  • Norwegian Bokmål: tryte
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: tryta, tryte
• Old Swedish: þrȳta
  • Swedish: tryta
• Old Danish: tryde
  • ⇒ Old Danish: fortryde
    • Danish: fortryde

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