tygi

Old Norse

Etymology

From Middle Low German tü̂ch, akin to German Zeug (“thing”), English toy.

Noun

tygi n

  1. (Late Old Norse) tool, gear
  2. (Late Old Norse) equipment

Descendants
  • Icelandic: tygi
  • Danish: tøj
    • → Faroese: toy
  • Norwegian: tøy (Bokmål), tøy (Nynorsk) n
  • Swedish: tyg

References
  • “tygi”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
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