þjá

From Old Norse þjá, from older þéa, from Proto-Germanic *þewāną.

• IPA^(key): /ˈθjauː/
• Rhymes: -auː

þjá (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative þjáði, supine þjáð)

1. to pain, plague, cause (one) to suffer [with accusative]

• þjáður
• þjá og þjaka
• þjást (“to suffer”)
• þjást af (“to suffer from”)

• Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon (1989) “þjá”, in Íslensk orðsifjabók, Reykjavík: Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, →ISBN (Available at Málið.is under the “Eldri orðabækur” tab.)

• þéa — before the éa > já change

From older þéa, from Proto-Germanic *þewāną (“to enslave, subject”), from *þewaz, *þegwaz (“slave”). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *tekʷ- (“to run”).

þjá (singular past indicative þjáði, plural past indicative þjáðu, past participle þjáðr)

1. to constrain, enthral, enslave

   hann var þjáðr til vinnu

   he was forced to work as a bondsman

• þján f (“bondage, servitude, oppression”)

• þerna f (“tern”)
• þjóna (“to serve”)

• Icelandic: þjá
• Norwegian Nynorsk: tjå

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “þjá”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 512; also available at the Internet Archive