þjófr

Old Norse

Alternative forms

*þiūβʀ — Old East Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Norse *ᚦᛖᚢᛒᚨᛉ (*þeubaʀ) (attested in ᛗᚨᚱᛁᚦᛖᚢᛒᚨᛉ (mariþeubaʀ)), from Proto-Germanic *þeubaz.

Pronunciation

(9th century West Norse) IPA^(key): /θe͜oːβɹ̝/
(12th century Icelandic) IPA^(key): /θjoːvr̩/

Noun

þjófr m (genitive þjófs, plural þjófar)

thief

Declension

Declension of þjófr (strong a-stem)

masculine	singular		plural
masculine	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	þjófr	þjófrinn	þjófar	þjófarnir
accusative	þjóf	þjófinn	þjófa	þjófana
dative	þjófi	þjófinum	þjófum	þjófunum
genitive	þjófs	þjófsins	þjófa	þjófanna

Derived terms

þjófa (“to call one a thief”)
þjóflaun f (“thievish concealment of a thing”)
þjófligr (“thievish”)
þjófnaðr m (“theft”)
þjófsaugu n pl (“thief's eyes”)
þjófskapr m (“theft”)
þjófsnafn n (“the name of a thief”)
þjófsnara n (“thief's halter”)
þjófsnautr m (“a partaker with thieves”)
þjófstolinn (“stolen (by a thief / thieves)”)
þjófsǫk f (“a charge or accusation of theft”)

Descendants

Icelandic: þjófur
Faroese: tjóvur
Norwegian Nynorsk: tjov, tjuv; (dialectal) tjóv’e, tju, tjyv
- → Norwegian Bokmål: tjuv
Elfdalian: tjuov
Old Swedish: þiūver
- Swedish: tjuv, tjuf, tiuf
Old Danish: thiūf, (Scanian) þiufær
- Danish: tyv
  - Norwegian Bokmål: tyv
- Scanian: tjúv
Old Gutnish: þiaufr
- Gutnish: töiv

References

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

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