Noun: þunor
Gender: m
Nominative
| Singular | þunor |
| Plural | þunras |
Genitive
| Singular | þunres |
| Plural | þunra |
Dative
| Singular | þunre |
| Plural | þunrum |
Accusative
| Singular | þunor |
| Plural | þunras |
Sample Sentences
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late 9th century, translation of Orosius’ History Against the Pagans
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Þæt wæs ǣrest þæt þunor tōslōg heora hīestan godes hūs Iufeses. (That was before thunder destroyed the house of Jove, their highest god.)
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þunor and līeġetu (thunder and lightning)
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Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church
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Þæt seofode wīte wæs, þæt swā miċel ðunor and hagol becōm on ðām lēodsċipe, þæt...ǣlċ trēow on ðām earde tōbǣrst. (The seventh plague was that there was such great thunder and hail in that country, that...every tree in the land split in two.)
Nouns inflected like þunor
bealdor,
firenleahtor,
burgealdor,
þunor,
leahtor,
ancor,
aldor,
ultor,
hleahtor,
hungor,
otor,
Etymology
1. From Proto-West Germanic *þunr.
2. Cognate with Sanskrit स्तनति (stanati, “resound, reverberate, roar, thunder”), Ancient Greek στένω (sténō, “moan, groan, sigh”), Latin tonō, Old Church Slavonic стенати (stenati) (Russian стена́ть (stenátʹ)), Lithuanian steneti. See: Latin Nouns '
tonō'.
Verbs referencing "þunor"
English Nouns
thunder, Middle English Nouns
thonder.
Translations