þjófr

== Old Norse == === Alternative forms === *þiūβʀ — Old East Norse === Etymology === From Proto-Norse *ᚦᛖᚢᛒᚨᛉ (*þeubaʀ) (attested in ᛗᚨᚱᛁᚦᛖᚢᛒᚨᛉ (mariþeubaʀ)), from Proto-Germanic *þeubaz. === Pronunciation === (9th century West Norse) IPA(key): /θe͜oːβɹ̝/ (12th century Icelandic) IPA(key): /θjoːvr̩/ === Noun === þjófr m (genitive þjófs, plural þjófar) thief ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== Icelandic: þjófur Faroese: tjóvur Norwegian Nynorsk: tjov, tjuv; (dialectal) tjóv’e, tju, tjyv → Norwegian Bokmål: tjuv Elfdalian: tjuov Old Swedish: þiūver Swedish: tjuv, tjuf, tiuf Old Danish: thiūf, (Scanian) þiufær Danish: tyv Norwegian Bokmål: tyv Scanian: tjúv Old Gutnish: þiaufr Gutnish: töiv === Further reading === Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “þjófr”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 513; also available at the Internet Archive