English
Sleipnir
Sleipnir comes from Old Norse Sleipnir ‘the slipper, the slippy one’, and goes back to sleipr.
- Old Norsec. 800–1350sleipr‘slippy’
- Old Norse, derivedc. 800–1350Sleipnir‘the slipper, the slippy one’
- Englishearliest quotation 1866same form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Old Norsec. 800–1350sleipr‘slippy’
- Old Norse, derivedc. 800–1350Sleipnir‘the slipper, the slippy one’
- Englishearliest quotation 1866same form
Earliest quotation: 1866, Charles Kingsley, London: Nelson: “And Ranald swore first by the white Christ, and…”
Every English word from Old Norse sleipr
Today it means
name The eight-legged horse of Odin.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Old Norse sleipr / Sleipnir