tygi

Old Norse

Etymology

From Middle Low German tü̂ch, akin to German Zeug (“thing”), English toy.

Noun

tygi n

1. (Late Old Norse) tool, gear
2. (Late Old Norse) equipment

Descendants

• Icelandic: tygi
• Danish: tøj
  • → Faroese: toy
• Norwegian: tøy (Bokmål), tøy (Nynorsk) n
• Swedish: tyg

Further reading

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