þerra

== Icelandic == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈθɛrːa/ Rhymes: -ɛrːa === Verb === þerra (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative þerraði, supine þerrað) to dry, to make dry [with accusative] ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Related terms ==== þorna þurr þurrka == Old Norse == === Etymology 1 === ==== Noun ==== þerra f (genitive þerru) a towel Synonym: þurka 800s, Hávamál, verse 4 ===== Declension ===== === Etymology 2 === From Proto-Germanic *þarzijaną (“to cause to dry”), from Proto-Indo-European *torséyeti, from the root *ters- (“dry”). The Proto-Germanic *þarzijaną would originally have been a causative of the class 3 strong verb *þersaną, of which there is no known descendant in Old Norse. ==== Verb ==== þerra (singular past indicative þerði, plural past indicative þerðu, past participle þerðr) to make, cause to dry [with accusative] Synonym: þurka ===== Conjugation ===== ===== Related terms ===== þerrir m (“drying; dry weather”) þurr (“dry”) ===== Descendants ===== Icelandic: þerra Norwegian: terra, terre ==== Further reading ==== Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “þerra”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 510; also available at the Internet Archive