Yggdrasill
English
Old Norse
Etymology
Commonly accepted as being composed yggr (“terrible”) (said to literally mean "the wet element," from Proto-Germanic *watōr) + drasill (“steed”), where “steed” refers to a hanging tree or possibly from *dʰer- (“to hold, support”).
References
- Winterbourne, Anthony (2004): When the Norns Have Spoken: Time and Fate in Germanic Paganism
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