þrjóta

== Icelandic == === Etymology === From Old Norse þrjóta, from Proto-Germanic *uzþreutaną. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈθrjouːta/ Rhymes: -ouːta === Verb === þrjóta (strong verb, third-person singular past indicative þraut, third-person plural past indicative non-existent, supine þrotið) to dwindle, be used up, exhausted, spent (impersonal) to cause to be at an end [with accusative ‘someone’] (idiomatically translated as "be at an end" with the accusative object as the subject) (impersonal) to exhaust, to cause to become exhausted (to be unable to continue, having spent one’s energy, etc.) (idiomatically translated as "be/become exhausted" with the accusative object as the subject) ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Derived terms ==== þrjóta erindið (“to give up from exhaustion”) == Old Norse == === Etymology === From Proto-Germanic *þreutaną. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *trewd- (“to harass”). === Verb === þrjóta (singular past indicative þraut, plural past indicative þrutu, past participle þrotinn) (impersonal) to cause to run out of, to cause to run short of, to exhaust [with accusative ‘someone’ and accusative ‘something’] (idiomatically translated as "run out of" with the animate accusative object as the subject) (impersonal, figurative) to cause to become exhausted [with accusative ‘someone’ and accusative ‘something’] (idiomatically translated as "become exhausted" with the animate accusative object as the subject) ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Related terms ==== þraut f þreyta (þreyttr (“tired”)) þrot n (“exhaustion”) þrotna ==== Descendants ==== Icelandic: þrjóta Faroese: tróta Norwegian: Norwegian Bokmål: tryte Norwegian Nynorsk: tryta, tryte Old Swedish: þrȳta Swedish: tryta Old Danish: tryde ⇒ Old Danish: fortryde Danish: fortryde === Further reading === Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “þrjóta”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 517; also available at the Internet Archive