Sleipnir

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsleipnɪr/

Proper noun

Sleipnir

  1. (Norse mythology) The eight-legged horse of Odin.
    • 1866, Charles Kingsley, chapter 33, in Hereward the Wake, London: Nelson, page 443:
      And Ranald swore first by the white Christ, and then by the head of Sleipnir, Odin’s horse[.]

Old Norse

Etymology

From the adjective sleipr (“slippy”) +‎ -n- +‎ -ir, roughly “slipner, the slippy one”.

Proper noun

Sleipnir m

  1. (Norse mythology) The eight-legged horse of Odin.

Descendants

  • Icelandic: Sleipnir
  • Swedish: (Västergötland, early 20th c.) Släppner
  • → Danish: Sleipner, Slepne
  • → English: Sleipnir
  • Norwegian:
    • → Norwegian Bokmål: Sleipner, Sleipne
    • → Norwegian Nynorsk: Sleipne, Sleipner
  • → Swedish: Sleipner, Slepne
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