þyrsta

From þyrstur +‎ -a.

• IPA^(key): /ˈθɪr̥sta/
• Rhymes: -ɪr̥sta

þyrsta (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative þyrsti, supine þyrst)

1. (impersonal) to thirst, to be thirsty

   Mig þyrstir.

   I am thirsty.

• þyrsta í (“to long for something, to be thirsty for something”)

• þorsti (“thirst”)
• þyrstur (“thirsty”)

From Proto-Germanic *þurstiz.

þyrsta

1. accusative singular feminine indefinite of þyrstr
2. accusative plural masculine indefinite of þyrstr
3. oblique singular masculine definite of þyrstr
4. singular neuter definite of þyrstr

þyrsta (singular past indicative þyrsti, plural past indicative þyrstu, past participle þyrstr)

1. (impersonal) to cause to thirst [with accusative ‘someone’] (idiomatically translated as "be thirsty" with the accusative object as the subject)

   mik þyrstir ― I am thirsty

• þorsti m (“thirst”)
• þyrstr (“thirsty”)

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “þyrsta”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 522; also available at the Internet Archive