tár
Icelandic
/tʰauːr/
noun
Definitions
- a tear
- a small amount of a drink such as coffee or liquor; drop
Etymology
Derived from Old Norse tár derived from Proto-Germanic *tahrą (tear) derived from Proto-Indo-European *dáḱru- (tear, tears).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*dáḱru-
Gloss
tear, tears
Concept
Semantic Field
Emotions and values
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Kanji
泪, 涙
Emoji
🤣 💧 😂 😢 😭 😹 😿 🥲
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- δάκρυ Ancient Greek
- *dáḱru Proto-Indo-European
- *dáḱru- Proto-Indo-European
- tåre Norwegian Bokmål
- *tahrą Proto-Germanic
- tår Swedish
- tår Norwegian Nynorsk
- tåre Norwegian Nynorsk
- tár Old Norse
- tåre Danish
- hræsni Icelandic
- hræsnistár Icelandic
- krókódíll Icelandic
- krókódílstár Icelandic
- tárvotur Icelandic
- votur Icelandic
- zahar Old High German
- tár Faroese
- 𐍄𐌰𐌲𐍂 Gothic
- *tah(h)r gmw-pro
- *dakrom Proto-Celtic
- dacrima Old Latin
- lacruma Old Latin