þurs

== Middle English == === Noun === þurs alternative form of thurs == Old Norse == === Alternative forms === þuss === Etymology === From Proto-Germanic *þursaz, *þurisaz (“giant, name of the Þ-rune”). Cognate with Old English þyrs, Old Saxon thuris, Old High German durs, duris. See also Finnish turisas, Tursas, turso. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *tur-, *twer- (“to rotate, twirl, swirl, move”). === Pronunciation === (9th century West Norse, 12th century Icelandic) IPA(key): /ˈθurs/ === Noun === þurs m (genitive þurs, plural þursar) (Norse mythology) a giant, ogre, monster Vǫluspá, verse 8, lines 5-6, in 1860, T. Möbius, Edda Sæmundar hins fróða: mit einem Anhang zum Theil bisher ungedruckter Gedichte. Leipzig, page 2: […] unz þrjár kvámu / þursa meyjar […] […] until three came / giant-maidens […] a dunce, numskull Heilræðavísur, in 1933, H. Pétursson, Heilræði Hallgríms Péturssonar: […] en þursinn heimskr þegja hlýtr, […] […] but a stupid dunce must remain silent, […] the name of the Þ-rune ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== Icelandic: þurs Faroese: tussur Norwegian Nynorsk: tuss, tusse Norwegian Bokmål: tuss, tusse Swedish: tuss, tusse (dialectal) Old Danish: tusse, tosse Danish: tosse, turs (“obsolete”) → Scottish Gaelic: tursa === Further reading === Richard Cleasby; Guðbrandur Vigfússon (1874), “þurs”, in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, 1st edition, Oxford: Oxford Clarendon Press, page 750 Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “þurs”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 520; also available at the Internet Archive