tjaldr

== Old Norse == === Etymology === From Proto-Indo-European *del-, *dul- (“to shake, hesitate”), see also Dutch touteren (“to tremble”), North Frisian talt, tolt (“unstable, shaky”). Related to English tilt. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term. Missing Proto-Germanic link === Noun === tjaldr m (genitive tjalds, plural tjaldar) oystercatcher (Haematopus ostralegus) ==== Declension ==== ==== Descendants ==== Icelandic: tjaldur Faroese: tjaldur n → Danish: tjald c (“weed”) → Norwegian Bokmål: tjall n or m → Norwegian Nynorsk: tjall n or m Norn: shalder (Shetland), chalder, chaldro (Orkney) → Scots: chalder Norwegian Nynorsk: tjeld; (dialectal) tjild (kjill) Swedish: tjäll (chiefly dialectal) Danish: tjeld Norwegian Bokmål: tjeld === References === === Further reading === Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “tjaldr”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive