thunar
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "On the other hand, since the devil has, to a great extent, usurped the place of Thunar, it naturally follows that the favourite animal of the fallen god is often found reversing his former functions, and ministering to the powers of darkness."
- "From this it follows at all events, that the worship of Thunar also prevailed in those regions […]"
- "And most European mythologists followed them and saw in the Indra armed with thunderbolt a counterpart to the Germanic Thunar, who swings the thunder hammer Mjoelnir, a thunder-god of the prehistoric Indo-Germanic age […]"
Etymology
Borrowed from German Thunar, a learned borrowing from Old Saxon Thunær, from Proto-West Germanic *Þunr. Doublet of Thor, Thunor, and thunder.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: Thunær, *Þunr