tjúga

See also: tjuga

Old Norse

Etymology

Derived from Proto-Germanic *teuhaną (“to drag, pull”). Thence also the past participle toginn.

Noun

tjúga f (genitive tjúgu)

1. pitchfork

Declension

Declension of tjúga (weak ōn-stem)

feminine	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	tjúga	tjúgan	tjúgur	tjúgurnar
accusative	tjúgu	tjúguna	tjúgur	tjúgurnar
dative	tjúgu	tjúgunni	tjúgum	tjúgunum
genitive	tjúgu	tjúgunnar	tjúgna	tjúgnanna

Descendants

• Norwegian:
  • Norwegian Bokmål: tjuge f or m
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: tjuge f
• Swedish: tjuga c

Further reading

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “tjúga”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 439; also available at the [https://archive.org/stream/concisedictionar001857

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