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

Further reading

  • Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “tygi”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive
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