þang
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Icelandic[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old Norse þongull, þang, from Proto-Germanic *þangą, from Proto-Indo-European *tenk- (“to thicken, be solid”), related to Proto-Germanic *þinhaną. Cognate with Swedish tång and Norwegian Bokmål tang.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
þang n (genitive singular þangs, no plural)
Declension[edit]
declension of þang
Further reading[edit]
- “þang” in the Dictionary of Modern Icelandic (in Icelandic) and ISLEX (in the Nordic languages)
- Pokorny, Julius (1959) chapter 1068, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 1068
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