þurr

From Old Norse þurr, from Proto-Germanic *þursuz, from Proto-Indo-European *ters-.

• IPA^(key): /θʏrː/

  Rhymes: -ʏrː

þurr (comparative þurrari, superlative þurrastur)

1. dry; without liquid
2. (informal) dry, alcohol-free; without alcohol

   Þetta var þurr helgi.

   It was an alcohol-free weekend.

• þurr á manninn (“brusque”)
• upp úr þurru (“suddenly, out of nothing, unprovoked”)

• þurrka

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

• þyrr (Trønder dialect of Old Norwegian)

From Proto-Germanic *þursuz, from Proto-Indo-European *térsus, from the root *ters- (“dry”).

þurr (comparative þurrari, superlative þurrastr)

1. dry

• þerra (“to dry, make dry”)
• þorna (“to dry out”)
• þorskr m (“codfish”)
• þorsti m (“thirst”)
• þurka (“to dry out”)
• þyrstr (“thirsty”)

• þurr in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, G. T. Zoëga, Clarendon Press, 1910, at Internet Archive.
• M. Hægstad (1899) Gamalt trøndermaal : upplysningar um maalet i Trøndelag fyrr 1350 og ei utgreiding um vokalverket, page 1</ref>