valkyrie
See also: Valkyrie
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Etymology edit
Borrowed from Old Norse valkyrja sg (“chooser of the slain”), plural valkyrjur pl, from Proto-Germanic *walakuzjǭ. Cognate to Old English wælcyrge. First attested in English as a proper noun (Valkyries) in the 1770s; attested as a common noun (valkyries) since the 1880s.
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Noun edit
valkyrie (plural valkyries)
- (Norse mythology) Any of the female attendants of Odin, figures said to guide fallen warriors from the battlefield to Valhalla.
- Wagner's “Der Ring des Nibelungen” (1853) famously features valkyries.
Translations edit
any of the female attendants, or handmaidens of Odin
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Danish edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from Old Norse valkyrja, from Proto-Germanic *walakuzjǭ.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
valkyrie c (singular definite valkyrien, plural indefinite valkyrier)
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Declension of valkyrie
common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | valkyrie | valkyrien | valkyrier | valkyrierne |
genitive | valkyries | valkyriens | valkyriers | valkyriernes |
Further reading edit
- valkyrie on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia da
French edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Old Norse valkyrja.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
valkyrie f (plural valkyries)
Further reading edit
- “valkyrie”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.