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þunor-rád

  • noun [ feminine ]
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Grammar
þunor-rád, e; f.
Thunder, a peal of thunder
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  • Ne bip þǽr líget ... ne þunerrád (þunor, Wulfst. 139, 31)

    non fulmina, ... tonitru,

    • Dóm. L. 16, 263.

  • Ðá com þunerrád and légetsleht and ofslóh ðone mǽstan dǽl,

    • Shrn. 57, 35.

  • Ðá wæs geworden mycel þunorrád,

    • Blickl. Hornl. 145, 29.

  • Ðonne þunorrád biþ, ne sceþeð ðam men ðe ðone stán ( agate ) mid him hæfð,

    • Lchdtn. ii. 296, 30: iii. 374, col. 2.

  • From stefne ðunurráde (þunuráde, Spl.)

    a voce tonitrui,

    • Ps. Surt. 103, 7: 76, 19.

  • Þunur-ráda ðínre

    tonitrris tui,

    • Ps. Spl. 76, 17.

  • Hió áhóf ðæt heáfod of ðære mýsan somod mid ðære þunoráde,

    • Lchdm. iii. 374, col. 2.

  • Biddaþ Drihten, ðæt his þunorráda ( tonitrua ) geswícon,

    • Ex. 9, 28, 33, 34.

  • Gif lígette and ðunorráde ( tonitrua ) eorþan and lyfte brégdon,

    • Bd. 4, 3
      • ;
    • S. 569, 12.

  • Þuneráda,

    • Hpt. Gl. 509, 22.

  • Ðunorráda hlynn,

    • Wulfst. 186, 3.

  • Mycel mægen liégetslyhta and þuneráda,

    • Lchdm. iii. 374, col. 2.

  • Gód wið lígetta and wið þunorráda,

    • ii. 290, 16.

  • Hé worhte þunorráda on heofonum

    intonuit de caelum Dominus,

    • Ps. Th. 17, 13: Ex. 9, 23.
Etymology
[Cf.
Icel. reið a clap of thunder, from the notion of Thor driving through the air. See Grmm. D. M. c. 8.
]
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Bosworth, Joseph. “þunor-rád.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/32240.

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