Sleipnir

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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[.]
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