Etymology

Sleipnir

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Today it means: The eight-legged horse of Odin. Full definition →

Old Norse Sleipnir
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The story

  1. Old Norse · borrowed fromSleipnir“the slipper, the slippy one”
  2. English todaySleipnir

Borrowed from Old Norse Sleipnir (“the slipper, the slippy one”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.