Thor
English
Alternative forms
- Þor (rare)
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /θɔː/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
- (General American) IPA(key): /θɔɹ/
- Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
Proper noun
Thor
- (Norse mythology) 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, book third, 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.
- A male given name from the Germanic languages occasionally borrowed from Scandinavia.
- A mountain on Baffin Island, Canada
Translations
thunder god
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Danish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /toːr/, [tˢoɐ̯ˀ]
- Rhymes: -oːɐ̯
Proper noun
Thor
- (Norse mythology) Thor.
- a male given name, shortened from compound names beginning with Thor-/Tor-
Finnish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈto(ː)r/, [ˈt̪o̞(ː)r]
Declension
Inflection of Thor (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | Thor | — | ||
genitive | Thorin | — | ||
partitive | Thoria | — | ||
illative | Thoriin | — | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | Thor | — | ||
accusative | nom. | Thor | — | |
gen. | Thorin | |||
genitive | Thorin | — | ||
partitive | Thoria | — | ||
inessive | Thorissa | — | ||
elative | Thorista | — | ||
illative | Thoriin | — | ||
adessive | Thorilla | — | ||
ablative | Thorilta | — | ||
allative | Thorille | — | ||
essive | Thorina | — | ||
translative | Thoriksi | — | ||
abessive | Thoritta | — | ||
instructive | — | — | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
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German
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /toːr/, [toːɐ̯], [tɔɐ̯]
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -oːɐ̯
- Homophone: Tor
Etymology 1
Learned borrowing from Old Norse Þórr, from Proto-Germanic *Þunraz. Doublet of Donar, itself a learned borrowing from Old High German.
Proper noun
Thor m (proper noun, strong, genitive Thors)
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Noun
Thor n (strong, genitive Thors, plural Thore)
- Obsolete spelling of Tor (gate) which was deprecated in 1902 following the Second Orthographic Conference of 1901.
Declension
Noun
Thor m (weak, genitive Thoren, plural Thoren)
- 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)
- 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):
Declension
Derived terms
Further reading
- “Thor” in Duden online
Icelandic
Norwegian Bokmål
Related terms
- (surnames) Thorsen
References
- Kristoffer Kruken - Ola Stemshaug: Norsk personnamnleksikon, Det Norske Samlaget, Oslo 1995, →ISBN
- 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.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Related terms
- (surnames) Thorsen
References
- Kristoffer Kruken - Ola Stemshaug: Norsk personnamnleksikon, Det Norske Samlaget, Oslo 1995, →ISBN
- 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.
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈtɔʁ/ [ˈtɔh]
- (São Paulo) IPA(key): /ˈtɔɾ/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /ˈtɔʁ/ [ˈtɔχ]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈtɔɻ/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈtɔɾ/
- (Southern Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈtɔ.ɾi/
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