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Definition: Ull |
UllNoun1. (Norse mythology) one of the Aesir known for his beauty and skill with bow and skis; son of Sif and stepson of Thor. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Ull" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1838. (references) |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
ull | English | Ullage | N/A |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
In Norse mythology, Ull ("glory") was a son of Sif though not by her husband, Thor, and styled god of the snowshoe, god of the bow, hunting-God, god of the Shield. A shield is called the 'ship of Ullr'. Ullr lived in a hall called Ydalir 'Yew-dales'.
In Saxo Grammaticus' Danish History, Book III, where gods appear euhemerized as powerful humans, Ull, under the name Ollerus, is described as "such a cunning wizard that he used a certain bone, which he had marked with awful spells, wherewith to cross the seas, instead of a vessel; and that by this bone he passed over the waters that barred his way as quickly as by rowing."
When Odin was exiled, Ollerus was chosen to take his place. Ollerus ruled under the name Odin for ten years until the true Odin was called back, whereupon Ollerus retired to Sweden where he was slain by Danes.
The appearance of Ull's name in numerous Norwegian place names suggests Ull had a religious importance far greater than would appear from the scanty surviving textual references.
Ullr seems to be a variant of a wide-spread god of the bow, plague and the wild represented in Greece by Apollo, among northwest Semites by Resheph/Rashpu, in the Vedas by Rudra and possibly in Welsh by Arawn.
Alternatives: Ullr (Old Norse), Vuldr, Wulder, Ulr (New Norse)
Some Modern Inventions:
In H. A. Guerber's The Myths of the Norsemen Ull is said to take Skadi as his wife following her divorce from Njord.
In Victor Rydberg's idiosyncratic Teutonic Mythology Ull is the son of Sif and Egil-Orvandill, half-brother of Swipdag - Odr, nephew of Weland Smith and a cousin of Skadi. His father Egil was the greatest archer in the mythology, and Ull follows in his father's footsteps. Ull helped Swipdag-Erik rescue Freya from the giants. He also ruled over the Vans when they held Asgard during the Van-As War.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Ull."
Synonym: UllSynonym: Ullr (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Ull |
| Non-English Usage: "Ull" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Catalan (eye), Faeroese (wool), Icelandic (wool), Norwegian (fleece, wool), Swedish (fleece, hair, wool). |
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Beginning with "Ull": ull-back. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
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ull | 91 |
lafayette ull | 3 |
main page ull | 2 |
baby dale ull | 2 |
baseball ull | 2 |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "Ull": ullage, ullaged, ullages. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "Ull": ahull, bellpull, brimfull, bull, cull, dull, full, gull, hull, lull, monohull, mull, multihull, null, numbskull, numskull, outpull, overfull, pull, scull, seagull, skull, stull, topfull, trull. (additional references) | |
Words containing "Ull": aimfully, ampulla, ampullae, ampullar, ampullary, annulled, annulling, artfully, awfuller, awfullest, awfully, balefully, banefully, bashfully, beautifully, bellpulls, blamefully, blissfully, boastfully, boulle, boulles, bountifully, buckminsterfullerene, buckminsterfullerenes, bulla, bullace, bullaces, bullae, bullate, bullbaiting, bullbaitings, bullbat, bullbats, bulldog, bulldogged, bulldogger, bulldoggers, bulldogging, bulldoggings, bulldogs, bulldoze, bulldozed, bulldozer, bulldozers, bulldozes, bulldozing, bulled, bullet, bulleted, bulletin, bulletined. (additional references) | |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words containing the letters "l-l-u" | |
+1 letter: bull, cull, dull, full, gull, hull, lull, lulu, mull, null, pull. | |
+2 letters: ahull, alula, bulla, bulls, bully, culls, cully, dulls, dully, fulls, fully, gulls, gully, hullo, hulls, lulls, lulus, mulla, mulls, nulls, pulls, quell, quill, scull, skull, stull, sully, trull, tulle. | |
+3 letters: allium, allude, allure, aludel, alulae, alular, bluely, boulle, bulbel, bulbil, bulbul, bullae, bulled, bullet, callus, cullay, culled, culler, cullet, cullis, dually, duelli, duello, dulled, duller, foully, fulfil, fullam, fulled, fuller, gallus, gluily, glumly, gulled, gullet, gulley, hallux, hulled, huller, hulloa, hullos, illume, lapful, laurel, lawful, lazuli, ligula, ligule, limuli, lobule, locule, loculi, loudly, lulled, lunula, lunule, lushly, luteal, mullah, mullas, mulled, mullen, muller, mullet, mulley, nullah, nulled, pilule, plural, pulled, puller, pullet, pulley, pullup, pulpal, quells, quills, sculls, skulls, squall, squill, stulls, sulcal, sullen, toluol, toluyl, trulls, tuille, tulles, uglily, ullage, unroll, unsell, unwell, uphill, upwell, vellum, villus, vulval, wilful. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)55 6C 6C |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..- .-.. .-.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010101 01101100 01101100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)U l l |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0055 006C 006C |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)557878 |
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