þeyr

From Old Norse þeyr, from Proto-Germanic *þaujaz. Cognate with Faroese toyggjur, Norwegian tøyr.

• IPA^(key): /θeiːr/
• Rhymes: -eiːr
• Homophone: þeir

þeyr m (genitive singular þeys, no plural)

1. thaw (warmth of weather sufficient to melt that which is frozen)

   Synonyms: hláka, þíða, bloti

• þá (“thaw”)
• þána (“to thaw out, to melt”)
• þeyja (“to thaw”)

þeyr

1. Alternative form of þeir

From Proto-Germanic *þaujaz.

þeyr m (genitive þeys, plural þeyir)

1. thaw

• þá f (“thawed ground”)

• Danish: tø c
• Faroese: toyggjur
• Icelandic: þeyr
• Norwegian Nynorsk: tøyr m
• Swedish: tö n

• þeyr in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, G. T. Zoëga, Clarendon Press, 1910, at Internet Archive.