gyger

gyger (plural gygers)

1. Alternative spelling of jigger (“door”).
   • 1566, Thomas Harman, A Caveat or Warning for Common Cursetors:

     Towre ye, yander is the ken, dup the gyger and maunde that is beneship.
     See you, yonder is the house, open the doore, and aske for the best.

• gygr (Landsmål)
• gjure, gjøgr, gyvr, gyr, gjør, gjuvr, gjur, gjure (dialectal)

From Old Norse gýgr.

• IPA^(key): /¹jʏːɡər/, /¹jʏɡər/
• Hyphenation: gỳ‧ger

gyger f (definite singular gygra, indefinite plural gygrar or gygrer, definite plural gygrane or gygrene)

1. (folklore, Norse mythology) a giantess, female jotun, female troll

   Synonyms: skjesse, jøtulkvinne

• jøtul
• jotun

• “gyger” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
• “gygr” in Ivar Aasen (1873) Norsk Ordbog med dansk Forklaring

From Old Norse gýgr. Possibly related to Sanskrit गुहति (gúhati, “he hides”).^[1]

gyger

1. (obsolete, Norse mythology) female jotun; female giant

• jättinna

• jätte