tjaldr
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Old Norse
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Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Indo-European *del-, *dul- (“to shake, hesitate”), see also Dutch touteren (“to tremble”), North Frisian talt, tolt (“unstable, shaky”).[1] Related to English tilt. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term. Missing Proto-Germanic link
Noun
[edit]tjaldr m (genitive tjalds, plural tjaldar)
Declension
[edit] Declension of tjaldr (strong a-stem)
Descendants
[edit]- Danish: tjeld c
- Faroese: tjaldur n
- Icelandic: tjaldur m
- Norn: shalder m (Shetland), chalder, chaldro (Orkney)
- → Scots: chalder
- Norwegian Bokmål: tjeld m
- Norwegian Nynorsk: tjeld m
References
[edit]- “tjaldr”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) “193-94”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 1, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, pages 193-94