Etymology

Vanir

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Today it means: The principal deities, as a group, of the Norse pantheon that represent chaos, fertility, and cultivation; opponents of the Æsir. Full definition →

Old Norse vanir
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The story

  1. Old Norse · borrowed fromvanir
  2. English todayVanir

Borrowed from Old Norse vanir. Doublet of Wanes.

Words from the same roots

Old Norsevanir all →

Vanatru

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.