valkyrie

FREQ #28174

n. （北欧神话中奥丁神的婢女之一）瓦尔基里

发音

UK /ˈvælˌkɪ.ɹi/
US /ˈvælˌkɪ.ɹi/
UK /ˈvælˌkɚ.i/
US /ˈvælˌkɚ.i/
UK /ˈvɑl-/
US /ˈvɑl-/

词形变化

valkyries 复数 valkyries

别名

Valkyrie Valkyria Walkyrie

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

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

    女武神

    瓦尔基里

    宗教 神话 哲学

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

词源

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.

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