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tugur

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Icelandic

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Norse tigr, tegr, tøgr, from Proto-Germanic *teguz.

Pronunciation

Noun

tugur m (genitive singular tugar or (sometimes proscribed) tugs, nominative plural tugir)

  1. a group of ten

Usage notes

  • Compound adjectives referring to someone's age or by some unit (of measurement) are composed of either -tugur (20-70s, 90s archaic/obsolete) or -ræður (80s-100s, 70s archaic/obsolete). The adjective tólfræður is only used to refer to something by a unit, not a person by age.

Declension

More information singular, plural ...

1Sometimes proscribed.

Derived terms

References

  • Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon (1989), Íslensk orðsifjabók, Reykjavík: Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, →ISBN (Available at Málið.is under the “Eldri orðabækur” tab.)
  • Kristín Bjarnadóttir, editor (2002–2025), “tugur”, in Beygingarlýsing íslensks nútímamáls [The Database of Modern Icelandic Inflection] (in Icelandic), Reykjavík: The Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies
  • Mörður Árnason (2019), Íslensk orðabók, 5th edition, Reykjavík: Forlagið
  • “tugur” in the Dictionary of Modern Icelandic (in Icelandic) and ISLEX (in the Nordic languages)
  • “tugur”, in Íðorðabanki [Terminology Bank] (in Icelandic), Reykjavík: The Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, 2002–2024
  • “tugur”, in Ritmálssafn Orðabókar Háskólans [The Written Collection of the Lexicological Institute] (in Icelandic), Reykjavík: The Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, (Can we date this quote?)
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Javanese

Romanization

tugur

  1. romanization of ꦠꦸꦒꦸꦂ

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