tugur

• tigur, tögur (archaic, obsolete)

From Old Norse tigr, tegr, tøgr, from Proto-Germanic *teguz.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtʰʏːɣʏr/

  Rhymes: -ʏːɣʏr

tugur m (genitive singular tugar or (sometimes proscribed) tugs, nominative plural tugir)

1. a group of ten

• Compound adjectives referring to someone's age or by some unit (of measurement) are composed of either -tugur (20-70s, 90s archaic/obsolete) or -ræður (80s-100s, 70s archaic/obsolete). The adjective tólfræður is only used to refer to something by a unit, not a person by age.

• tíu

• Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon (1989) Íslensk orðsifjabók, Reykjavík: Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, →ISBN (Available at Málið.is under the “Eldri orðabækur” tab.)
• Kristín Bjarnadóttir, editor (2002–2025), “tugur”, in Beygingarlýsing íslensks nútímamáls [The Database of Modern Icelandic Inflection] (in Icelandic), Reykjavík: The Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies
• Mörður Árnason (2019) Íslensk orðabók, 5th edition, Reykjavík: Forlagið
• “tugur” in the Dictionary of Modern Icelandic (in Icelandic) and ISLEX (in the Nordic languages)
• “tugur”, in Íðorðabanki [Terminology Bank] (in Icelandic), Reykjavík: The Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, 2002–2024
• “tugur”, in Ritmálssafn Orðabókar Háskólans [The Written Collection of the Lexicological Institute] (in Icelandic), Reykjavík: The Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, (Can we date this quote?)

tugur

1. romanization of ꦠꦸꦒꦸꦂ