þunor

See also: Thunor

Old English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *þunr.

Cognate with Sanskrit स्तनति (stanati, “resound, reverberate, roar, thunder”), Ancient Greek στένω (sténō, “moan, groan, sigh”), Latin tonō, Old Church Slavonic стенати (stenati) (Russian стена́ть (stenátʹ)), Lithuanian steneti.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈθu.nor/

Noun

þunor m

  1. thunder
    • late 9th century, translation of Orosius’ History Against the Pagans
      Þæt wæs ǣrest þæt þunor tōslōg heora hīestan godes hūs Iufeses.
      That was before thunder destroyed the house of Jove, their highest god.
    þunor and līeġetu
    thunder and lightning
    • Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church
      Þæt seofode wīte wæs, þæt swā miċel ðunor and hagol becōm on ðām lēodsċipe, þæt...ǣlċ trēow on ðām earde tōbǣrst.
      The seventh plague was that there was such great thunder and hail in that country, that...every tree in the land split in two.
  2. alternative letter-case form of Þunor

Declension

Strong a-stem:

singular plural
nominative þunor þunras
accusative þunor þunras
genitive þunres þunra
dative þunre þunrum

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Middle English: thonder
    • English: thunder
    • Scots: thunner, thuner, thunder, thundir
    • Yola: dhunder, dunder
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