Male first name (Scandinavian): Tor, thunder, Old Norse (Germanic mythology); Thorr = the thunder, the thunder god, Thor; thunraz = the Donner (German dialect), units = thunder (Indo), a modern form of 'Thor' and ' Thorr '; in Norse mythology, Thor, a son of Odin, the god of strength, thunder and war, the word for thunder can be traced back to the Indo-European