þykkr

== Old Norse == === Alternative forms === þjokkr, þjukkr === Etymology === From Proto-Germanic *þekuz, whence also Old English þicce, Old Saxon thikki, Old Frisian thikke, Old High German dicki. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *tégus (“thick”). === Adjective === þykkr (comparative þykkvari, superlative þykkvastr) thick ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== Icelandic: þykkur Faroese: tjúkkur, tjukkur Norwegian Nynorsk: tjukk, tykk → Norwegian Bokmål: tjukk Old Swedish: thiokker, thiukker Swedish: tjock Old Danish: thyk, thiuk, thiok Danish: tyk Norwegian Bokmål: tykk Elfdalian: tiokk Jamtish: tjukk Gutnish: tjåkkar Scanian: tjykker → Finnish: tykky (“thick snow on trees”) → Karelian: tykky === Further reading === Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “þykkr”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 508; also available at the Internet Archive