þurft

== Old Norse == === Etymology === From Proto-Germanic *þurftiz, itself from *þurbaną (“to need”) +‎ *-þiz. === Noun === þurft f (genitive þurftar, plural þurftir) need, want, necessity necessary discharge; (esp.) urine ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== þurftugr (“in need; poor”) þurftuligr (“useful, profitable”) ==== Related terms ==== þurfa (“to need”) þǫrf (“need, necessity”) ==== Descendants ==== Norwegian Nynorsk: turft Swedish: torft === Further reading === Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “þurft”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 520; also available at the Internet Archive