Sleipnir

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/ˈsleipnɪr/

proper noun

The eight-legged horse of Odin.

OriginOld Norse Sleipnir →
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Meanings

proper noun
  1. Norsehuman sciencesThe eight-legged horse of Odin.

    And Ranald swore first by the white Christ, and then by the head of Sleipnir, Odin’s horse[.]

    1866, Charles Kingsley, chapter 33, in Hereward the Wake, London: Nelson, page 443

Origin

  1. Old NorseSleipnir“the slipper, the slippy one”
  2. EnglishSleipnir

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

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