þjó

== Icelandic == === Etymology === From Old Norse þjó. === Noun === þjó n (genitive singular þjós, nominative plural þjó) (archaic) (the upper part of a thigh) ==== Declension ==== === Further reading === “þjó” in the Dictionary of Modern Icelandic (in Icelandic) and ISLEX (in the Nordic languages) == Old Norse == === Etymology === From Proto-Germanic *þeuhą, whence also Old English þēoh, Old Saxon thio, Dutch dij, Old High German dioh; ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *tewk-, cognate with Russian тук (tuk, “animal fat”), Lithuanian tukti (“become fat”). === Noun === þjó n thigh (in plural usually buttocks) ==== Declension ==== ==== Descendants ==== Icelandic: þjó Faroese: tjógv Norn: tjug Norwegian: tjo Gutnish: tiau, tjauv, tjaug === Further reading === Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “þjó”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 512; also available at the Internet Archive