þrjóta

From Old Norse þrjóta, from Proto-Germanic *uzþreutaną.

• IPA^(key): /ˈθrjouːta/

  Rhymes: -ouːta

þrjóta (strong verb, third-person singular past indicative þraut, third-person plural past indicative non-existent, supine þrotið)

1. to dwindle, be used up, exhausted, spent
2. (impersonal) to cause to be at an end [with accusative ‘someone’] (idiomatically translated as "be at an end" with the accusative object as the subject)
3. (impersonal) to exhaust, to cause to become exhausted (to be unable to continue, having spent one’s energy, etc.) (idiomatically translated as "be/become exhausted" with the accusative object as the subject)

• þrjóta erindið (“to give up from exhaustion”)

From Proto-Germanic *þreutaną. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *trewd- (“to harass”).

þrjóta (singular past indicative þraut, plural past indicative þrutu, past participle þrotinn)

1. (impersonal) to cause to run out of, to cause to run short of, to exhaust [with accusative ‘someone’ and accusative ‘something’] (idiomatically translated as "run out of" with the animate accusative object as the subject)

   en er hann þraut ørendit

   when breath failed him

   (literally, “when it exhausted him of breath”)

   Hrapp þraut vistir í hafi

   Hrapp ran out of food at sea

2. (impersonal, figurative) to cause to become exhausted [with accusative ‘someone’ and accusative ‘something’] (idiomatically translated as "become exhausted" with the animate accusative object as the subject)

   mara þraut óra

   our steeds were exhausted

• þraut f
• þreyta (þreyttr (“tired”))
• þrot n (“exhaustion”)
• þrotna

• Icelandic: þrjóta
• Faroese: tróta
• Norwegian:
  • Norwegian Bokmål: tryte
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: tryta, tryte
• Old Swedish: þrȳta
  • Swedish: tryta
• Old Danish: tryde
  • ⇒ Old Danish: fortryde
    • Danish: fortryde

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “þrjóta”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 517; also available at the Internet Archive