þrá

From Old Norse þrá (“a throe; struggle; longing”), from Proto-Germanic *þrawō (“grief; pain; threat”). More at throe.

• IPA^(key): /θrauː/

  Rhymes: -auː

þrá f (genitive singular þrár, nominative plural þrár)

1. a desire, a yearning

• fortíðarþrá

þrá (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative þráði, supine þráð)

1. to desire, to yearn, to long
2. to want or to desire sexually

   Ég þrái þig.

   I want you.

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

þrá

1. inflection of þrár:
   1. strong feminine nominative singular
   2. strong neuter nominative/accusative plural

From Proto-Germanic *þrawō f (“longing, suffering”). Akin to Old English þrēa and Middle High German drō.

• þrǫ́

þrá f (genitive þrár)

2. longing, yearning

From Proto-Germanic *þrawōną, related to *þrawō (“longing, suffering”).

þrá (singular past indicative þráði, plural past indicative þráðu, past participle þráðr)

2. to long, yearn

• þránaðr

• þreyja

• Icelandic: þrá
• Faroese: tráa
• Norn: trå
• Norwegian Nynorsk: trå
• Norwegian Bokmål: trå
• Old Swedish: þra, thra
  • Swedish: trå
• Old Danish: thra
  • Danish: attrå

From the adjective þrár (“stubborn, obstinate”).

þrá n

2. obstinacy

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

þrá

1. inflection of þrár:
   1. strong feminine nominative/accusative singular
   2. strong masculine accusative plural
   3. strong neuter nominative/accusative plural
   4. weak masculine oblique singular
   5. weak feminine nominative/oblique singular
   6. weak neuter singular
   7. weak nominative/accusative/dative plural

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

þrá

1. inflection of þrái m:
   1. oblique singular indefinite
   2. accusative/genitive plural indefinite

• þrá in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, G. T. Zoëga, Clarendon Press, 1910, at Internet Archive.