Tyggi

Old Norse Dictionary - tyggi

Meaning of Old Norse word "tyggi" in English.

As defined by the Cleasby & Vigfusson Old Norse to English dictionary:

tyggi: thus, not tiggi, as seen from rhymes, tyggi, glygg, hnyggr tyggi, hygg tyggja, Geisli 9, Lex. Poët.; [the word is therefore derived from tjúga (q. v.), toginn, (cp. Germ. ziehen, ge-zogen), and is akin to Germ. -zog, in her-zog, Lat. duc-s]:—a leader, chief, but only in poetry, Lex. Poët., freq. in old and mod. ballads.

Possible runic inscription in Younger Futhark:ᛏᚢᚴᚴᛁ
Younger Futhark runes were used from 8th to 12th centuries in Scandinavia and their overseas settlements

Abbreviations used:

cp.: compare.

freq.: frequent, frequently.

Germ.: German.

Lat.: Latin.

m.: masculine.

mod.: modern.

q. v.: quod vide.

v.: vide.

Works & Authors cited:

Lex. Poët.: Lexicon Poëticum by Sveinbjörn Egilsson, 1860.

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