Etymology

Mjollnir

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Today it means: The hammer of the Norse god Thor. Full definition →

Old Norse Mjǫllnir ← Proto-Germanic *meldunjaz ← Proto-Indo-European *meldʰ-n-
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*meldʰ-n-“lightning”
  2. Proto-Germanic · derived from*meldunjaz
  3. Old Norse · borrowed fromMjǫllnir
  4. English todayMjollnir

Borrowed from Old Norse Mjǫllnir, likely from Proto-Norse *ᛗᛖᛚᛞᚢᚾᛃᚨᛉ (*meldunjaʀ), from Proto-Germanic *meldunjaz, from Proto-Indo-European *meldʰ-n- (“lightning”). Compare Old Norse mjuln (“fire”), Welsh mellt, Slovene mółnja, Russian мо́лния (mólnija).

Words from the same roots

Old NorseMjǫllnir all →

molnupiravir

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.