Ink Pen by Phil Dunlap for April 23, 2018
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Transcript:
tyr: the term "dunderhead" comes from the dutch word donderhood. donder is from the old german thuner, which is from the old norse word for thunder-thor. and it was because thor was such a renowned nincompoop that "dunderhead" means "a stupid or slow-witter person." hamhock: yet they still gave him a movie before you. tyr: I know! Dunderheads...
According to my dictionary, the Middle English thoner, or thunder as we know it today, comes from the Old English thunor. Which is akin to the Old High German word for thunder, thonar. No mention of the Norse word for thunder, but it does say that in old Norse Thor was actually Thörr. As for dunderhead, it actually says that it comes from combining the Dutch word donder (thunder) with the English word head, no mention of donderhood.