English
Thorri
Thorri comes from Icelandic þorri ‘the fourth month of winter according to the…’, and goes back to Old Norse þorri.
- Old Norsec. 800–1350þorri‘a month of the Norse calendar’
- Icelandicmodernsame form‘the fourth month of winter according to the old Icelandic calendar’
- Englishearliest quotation 1961Thorri
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Old Norsec. 800–1350þorri‘a month of the Norse calendar’
- Icelandicmodernsame form‘the fourth month of winter according to the old Icelandic calendar’
- Englishearliest quotation 1961Thorri
Earliest quotation: 1961, Halldór Laxness, The Atom Station: “By the month of Þorri, a month which does…”
Every English word from Old Norse þorri
Today it means
name The fourth winter month in the Icelandic calendar, running from mid-January to mid-February.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Old Norse þorri / Thorri