valkyrie

Significado (Inglés)

Any of the female attendants of Odin, figures said to guide fallen warriors from the battlefield to Valhalla.

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Traducciones

walkure

Valchiria

الفتاة الإسطوريّة

valkür

فَالْكِيرِي

Βαλκυρία

Frecuencia

28k
Pronunciado como (IPA)
/ˈvælˌkɪ.ɹi/
Etimología (Inglés)

In summary

Borrowed from Old Norse valkyrja sg (“chooser of the slain”), plural valkyrjur pl, from Proto-Germanic *walakuzjǭ. Cognate to Old English wælcyrge. First attested in English as a proper noun (Valkyries) in the 1770s; attested as a common noun (valkyries) since the 1880s.

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