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Old English
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *þunr.
Cognate with Sanskrit स्तनति (stanati, “resound, reverberate, roar, thunder”), Ancient Greek στένω (sténō, “moan, groan, sigh”), Latin tonō, Old Church Slavonic стенати (stenati) (Russian стена́ть (stenátʹ)), Lithuanian steneti.
Pronunciation
Noun
þunor m
- thunder
- late 9th century, translation of Orosius’ History Against the Pagans
Þæt wæs ǣrest þæt þunor tōslōg heora hīestan godes hūs Iufeses.- That was before thunder destroyed the house of Jove, their highest god.
þunor and līeġetu- thunder and lightning
- Alternative letter-case form of Þunor.
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