þriðjungr

Old Norse

Etymology

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Noun

þriðjungr m

1. the third part
   • Saga skálda Haralds konúngs hárfagra [1]:

     […] er þriðjúngr lifði nætr.

     […] when a third of the night remained.

Descendants

• → Old English: *þriðing
  • Middle English: trithing
    • English: trithing

Further reading

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “þriðjungr”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 516; also available at the Internet Archive