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Middle English
Noun
þurs
- Alternative form of thurs
Old Norse
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *þursaz, *þurisaz (“giant, name of the Þ-rune”). Cognate with Old English þyrs, Old Saxon thuris, Old High German durs, duris. See also Finnish turisas, Tursas, turso. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *tur-, *twer- (“to rotate, twirl, swirl, move”).
Pronunciation
- (9th century West Norse, 12th century Icelandic) IPA(key): /ˈθurs/
Noun
þurs m (genitive þurs, plural þursar)
- (Norse mythology) a giant, ogre, monster
- Vǫluspá, verse 8, lines 5-6, in 1860, T. Möbius, Edda Sæmundar hins fróða: mit einem Anhang zum Theil bisher ungedruckter Gedichte. Leipzig, page 2:
- unz þrjár kvámu / þursa meyjar
- until three came / giant-maidens
- a dunce, numskull
- Heilræðavísur, in 1933, H. Pétursson, Heilræði Hallgríms Péturssonar:
- en þursinn heimskr þegja hlýtr,
- but a stupid dunce must remain silent,
- the name of the Þ-rune
Declension
Declension of þurs (strong a-stem)
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- þurs in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, R. Cleasby and G. Vigfússon, Clarendon Press, 1874, at Internet Archive.
- þurs in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, G. T. Zoëga, Clarendon Press, 1910, at Internet Archive.