Thor

• Þor (rare)

Representing Old Norse Þórr. Cognate with Old English Þunor, Swedish Tor.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /θɔː/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /θɔɹ/
• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)

Thor

1. (Norse mythology and paganism) A hammer-wielding god associated with thunder, lightning, storms, sacred groves and trees, strength, and the protection of mankind.
   • 1831, Thomas Carlyle, “Symbols”, in Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh. […], London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, 3rd book, page 155:

     So likewise a day comes when the Runic Thor, with his Eddas, must withdraw into dimness; and many an African Mumbo-Jumbo and Indian Pawpaw be utterly abolished.

   • 2020 July 29, Jessie Yeung, “Australia names new species after Deadpool, Thor, and other Marvel favorites”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     There’s the Thor fly in tribute of the God of Thunder, played in Marvel by Chris Hemsworth. Its scientific name is “Daptolestes bronteflavus,” which is derived from Latin like most scientific names – and translates to “blond thunder.”

2. A male given name from the Germanic languages occasionally borrowed from Scandinavia.
3. A mountain on Baffin Island, Canada.

• Thursday
• thunder

• Roth, thro, hotr, orth-, hotṛ, thro'

• IPA^(key): /toːr/, [tˢoɐ̯ˀ]
• Rhymes: -oːɐ̯

Thor

1. (Norse mythology) Thor.
2. a male given name, shortened from compound names beginning with Thor-/Tor-

• (male given names): Thorbjørn, Thorkild, Thorvald, Thyge, Toke, Torben, Torsten, Troels, Tue
• (female given names): Thora, Tove

Learned borrowing from Old Norse Þórr.

• IPA^(key): /ˈto(ː)r/, [ˈt̪o̞(ː)r]
• Rhymes: -or

Thor

1. Thor (Norse god)

   Synonym: Tor

• IPA^(key): /toːr/, [toːɐ̯], [tɔɐ̯]

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• Rhymes: -oːɐ̯
• Homophone: Tor

Learned borrowing from Old Norse Þórr, from Proto-Germanic *Þunraz. Doublet of Donar, itself a learned borrowing from Old High German.

Thor m (proper noun, strong, genitive Thors)

1. (Norse mythology) Thor, a hammer-wielding god in Norse mythology

• (male given names): Thorsten, Torben, Torsten

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Thor n (strong, genitive Thors, plural Thore)

1. Obsolete spelling of Tor (gate) which was deprecated in 1902 following the Second Orthographic Conference of 1901.

Thor m (weak, genitive Thoren, plural Thoren)

1. Obsolete spelling of Tor (fool) which was deprecated in 1902 following the Second Orthographic Conference of 1901.
   • 1837, Matthäus Zeheter, Anleitung zur methodischen Behandlung des Unterrichtes in der deutschen Sprache für deutsche Schulen (Zweite, verbesserte und vermehrte Auflage. Regensburg), p.106 (at books.google):

     „So wie sich ein Mohr nicht weiß waschen läßt, so läßt sich auch mancher Thor nicht klug machen.“

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• Thorheit

• “Thor” in Duden online

Thor m (proper noun, genitive singular Thors)

1. a male given name

Thor

1. a male given name, a less common spelling of Tor

• (surnames) Thorsen

• Kristoffer Kruken - Ola Stemshaug: Norsk personnamnleksikon, Det Norske Samlaget, Oslo 1995, →ISBN
• [2] Statistisk sentralbyrå, Namnestatistikk:7 934 males with the given name Thor (compared to 22 416 named Tor) living in Norway on January 1st 2011, with the frequency peak in the 1930s. Accessed on April 29th, 2011.

Thor m

1. a male given name, a less common spelling of Tor

• (surnames) Thorsen

• Kristoffer Kruken - Ola Stemshaug: Norsk personnamnleksikon, Det Norske Samlaget, Oslo 1995, →ISBN
• [3] Statistisk sentralbyrå, Namnestatistikk:7 934 males with the given name Thor (compared to 22 416 named Tor) living in Norway on January 1st 2011, with the frequency peak in the 1930s. Accessed on April 29th, 2011.

Thor m

1. (more common) alternative form of Tor