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Old Norse
Etymology
Borrowed from Old Irish tarb (compare Irish tarbh, Manx tarroo), from Proto-Celtic *tarwos (“bull”), from Proto-Indo-European *táwros (“bull”) (compare Latin taurus, Old Norse þjórr), from Proto-Semitic *ṯawr- (“bull, ox”), or from an unknown source.
Noun
tarfr m (genitive tarfs, plural tarfar)
- bull
- Synonyms: þjórr, naut
Declension
Descendants
Further reading
- Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “tarfr”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive
- Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon (1989) Íslensk orðsifjabók, Reykjavík: Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, →ISBN (Available at Málið.is under the “Eldri orðabækur” tab.)