þveit

== Old Norse == === Etymology === From Proto-Germanic *þwaitō, ultimately derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *twey- (“to shake, agitate; to hurl, toss”). Compare Old Norse þveita (“to hurl”). Related to English whittle, thwite and thwaite. === Noun === þveit f (genitive þveitar, plural þveitar) a clearing ==== Declension ==== ==== Related terms ==== þveita (“to hurl”) ==== Descendants ==== Norwegian: tveit; (dialectal) tvet → Danish: tved, tvede, tvedt → English: thwaite Old Norman: thuit ; -tuit, Thuit (in place-names) === Further reading === Douglas Harper (2001–2026), “whittle”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.