Etymology

huldre

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Today it means: A type of supernatural being in the shape of a beautiful woman with a cow's tail. Full definition →

Norwegian hulder
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The story

  1. Norwegian · learned borrowing fromhulder
  2. English todayhuldre

Learned borrowing from Norwegian hulder, with the same meaning.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.