valkyrie

• Valkyria, Valkyrie, Walkyrie

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

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈvælˌkɪ.ɹi/, /ˈvælˌkɚ.i/, /ˈvɑl-/

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valkyrie (plural valkyries)

1. (Norse mythology) Any of the female attendants of Odin, figures said to guide fallen warriors from the battlefield to Valhalla.

   Wagner's “Der Ring des Nibelungen” (1853) famously features valkyries.

• valkyrie on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Learned borrowing from Old Norse valkyrja, from Proto-Germanic *walakuzjǭ.

• IPA^(key): /valkyːriə/, [valˈkʰyɐ̯ˀiə]

valkyrie c (singular definite valkyrien, plural indefinite valkyrier)

1. valkyrie
2. fury, virago (a large, strong, courageous or aggressive woman)

• valkyrie on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

Borrowed from Old Norse valkyrja.

• IPA^(key): /val.ki.ʁi/

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valkyrie f (plural valkyries)

1. valkyrie

• “valkyrie”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.