Thor
Appearance
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Representing Old Norse Þórr. Cognate with Old English Þunor, Swedish Tor.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /θɔː/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- (General American) IPA(key): /θɔɹ/
- Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
Proper noun
[edit]Thor
- (Norse mythology and paganism) A hammer-wielding god associated with thunder, lightning, storms, sacred groves and trees, strength, and the protection of mankind.
- 1831, Thomas Carlyle, “Symbols”, in Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh. […], London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, 3rd book, page 155:
- So likewise a day comes when the Runic Thor, with his Eddas, must withdraw into dimness; and many an African Mumbo-Jumbo and Indian Pawpaw be utterly abolished.
- A male given name from the Germanic languages occasionally borrowed from Scandinavia.
- A mountain on Baffin Island, Canada
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]thunder god
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male given name
Anagrams
[edit]Danish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Thor
- (Norse mythology) Thor.
- a male given name, shortened from compound names beginning with Thor-/Tor-
Related terms
[edit]- (male given names): Thorbjørn, Thorkild, Thorvald, Thyge, Toke, Torben, Torsten, Troels, Tue
- (female given names): Thora, Tove
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Old Norse Þórr.
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Thor
Declension
[edit]Inflection of Thor (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | Thor | — | |
genitive | Thorin | — | |
partitive | Thoria | — | |
illative | Thoriin | — | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | Thor | — | |
accusative | nom. | Thor | — |
gen. | Thorin | ||
genitive | Thorin | — | |
partitive | Thoria | — | |
inessive | Thorissa | — | |
elative | Thorista | — | |
illative | Thoriin | — | |
adessive | Thorilla | — | |
ablative | Thorilta | — | |
allative | Thorille | — | |
essive | Thorina | — | |
translative | Thoriksi | — | |
abessive | Thoritta | — | |
instructive | — | — | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
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German
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Learned borrowing from Old Norse Þórr, from Proto-Germanic *Þunraz. Doublet of Donar, itself a learned borrowing from Old High German.
Proper noun
[edit]Thor m (proper noun, strong, genitive Thors)
Related terms
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Noun
[edit]Thor n (strong, genitive Thors, plural Thore)
- Obsolete spelling of Tor (gate) which was deprecated in 1902 following the Second Orthographic Conference of 1901.
Declension
[edit]Declension of Thor [neuter, strong]
Noun
[edit]Thor m (weak, genitive Thoren, plural Thoren)
- Obsolete spelling of Tor (fool) which was deprecated in 1902 following the Second Orthographic Conference of 1901.
- 1837, Matthäus Zeheter, Anleitung zur methodischen Behandlung des Unterrichtes in der deutschen Sprache für deutsche Schulen (Zweite, verbesserte und vermehrte Auflage. Regensburg), p.106 (at books.google):
- „So wie sich ein Mohr nicht weiß waschen läßt, so läßt sich auch mancher Thor nicht klug machen.“
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 1837, Matthäus Zeheter, Anleitung zur methodischen Behandlung des Unterrichtes in der deutschen Sprache für deutsche Schulen (Zweite, verbesserte und vermehrte Auflage. Regensburg), p.106 (at books.google):
Declension
[edit]Declension of Thor [masculine, weak]
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “Thor” in Duden online
Icelandic
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Thor m (proper noun, genitive singular Thors)
- a male given name
Declension
[edit]Declension of Thor (sg-only masculine)
indefinite singular | |
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nominative | Thor |
accusative | Thor |
dative | Thor |
genitive | Thors |
Norwegian Bokmål
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Thor
- a male given name, a less common spelling of Tor
Related terms
[edit]- (surnames) Thorsen
References
[edit]- Kristoffer Kruken - Ola Stemshaug: Norsk personnamnleksikon, Det Norske Samlaget, Oslo 1995, →ISBN
- [1] Statistisk sentralbyrå, Namnestatistikk:7 934 males with the given name Thor (compared to 22 416 named Tor) living in Norway on January 1st 2011, with the frequency peak in the 1930s. Accessed on April 29th, 2011.
Norwegian Nynorsk
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Thor m
- a male given name, a less common spelling of Tor
Related terms
[edit]- (surnames) Thorsen
References
[edit]- Kristoffer Kruken - Ola Stemshaug: Norsk personnamnleksikon, Det Norske Samlaget, Oslo 1995, →ISBN
- [2] Statistisk sentralbyrå, Namnestatistikk:7 934 males with the given name Thor (compared to 22 416 named Tor) living in Norway on January 1st 2011, with the frequency peak in the 1930s. Accessed on April 29th, 2011.
Portuguese
[edit]Pronunciation
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Proper noun
[edit]Thor m
- (more common) Alternative form of Tor
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- English terms borrowed from Old Norse
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- English 1-syllable words
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- Rhymes:English/ɔː(ɹ)
- Rhymes:English/ɔː(ɹ)/1 syllable
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- en:Norse mythology
- en:Paganism
- English terms with quotations
- English given names
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- en:Mountains
- en:Places in Canada
- en:Asatru
- en:Norse deities
- Danish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Danish/oːɐ̯
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- Danish lemmas
- Danish proper nouns
- da:Norse mythology
- Danish given names
- Danish male given names
- Finnish terms borrowed from Old Norse
- Finnish learned borrowings from Old Norse
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- Finnish 1-syllable words
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- Rhymes:Finnish/or
- Rhymes:Finnish/or/1 syllable
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish proper nouns
- Finnish risti-type nominals
- Finnish uncountable nouns
- German 1-syllable words
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- Rhymes:German/oːɐ̯
- Rhymes:German/oːɐ̯/1 syllable
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- Icelandic lemmas
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- Norwegian Bokmål lemmas
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- Norwegian Bokmål given names
- Norwegian Bokmål male given names
- Norwegian Nynorsk lemmas
- Norwegian Nynorsk proper nouns
- Norwegian Nynorsk masculine nouns
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- Portuguese 1-syllable words
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- Portuguese 2-syllable words
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