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Definition: Yggdrasil |
YggdrasilNoun1. (Norse mythology) a huge ash tree whose roots and branches hold the earth and heaven and hell together. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: YggdrasilSynonym: Ygdrasil (n). (additional references) |
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In Norse Mythology, Yggdrasil was the "World Tree," a gigantic ash, thought to hold all of the different worlds: such as Asgard, Midgard, Utgard and Hel. The name literally means the 'horse of Yggr', i.e. the horse of Odin, since Yggr (meaning Dreadful) is one of Odin's many names.
Three roots supported the trunk, with one passing through Asgard, one through Midgard and one through Hel. Beneath the Asgard root lay the sacred Well of Urd, and beneath the Midgard root lay the spring or well of Mimir.
The messenger in the tree (and thus between the worlds) was the squirrel, Ratatosk. In the top of the tree was perched a giant eagle (with a hawk upon its forehead) who blew the winds over the worlds with his mighty wings. The roots of Yggdrasil were gnawed at by a dragon, Nidhogg. Heidrun, a goat, lived on top of Yggdrasil and ate its leaves. Four stags fed on the bark of Yggdrasil, including Dvalin.
Yggdrasil Linux was the name of an early Linux distribution.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Yggdrasil."
Crosswords: Yggdrasil |
| English words defined with "Yggdrasil": Mimir. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Yggdrasil": Nornir. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Yggdrasil" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Dutch (Yggdrasil, Yggdrasill). |
| "Yggdrasil" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 96.88% of the time. "Yggdrasil" is used about 32 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 96.88% | 31 | 62,296 |
| Noun (singular) | 3.13% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 32 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
yggdrasil | 60 |
odin yggdrasil | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "Yggdrasil"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Dutch | Yggdrasil (Yggdrasill). (various references) | ||||
Esperanto | Igdrasilo (Yggdrasill). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | yggdrasilay | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-g-g-i-l-r-s-y" | |
-3 letters: argils, aridly, draggy, drails, glairs, glairy, grails, grisly, lairds, liards, lidars, riyals, slaggy, yairds. | |
-4 letters: algid, argil, arils, aryls, daily, dairy, daisy, dials, diary, dirls, drags, drail, drays, drily, gadis, gaily, gigas, gilds, girds, girls, girly, glads, glady, glair, glary, glias, grads, grail, grays, grids, grigs, gyral, idyls, laird, lairs, lards, lardy. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-g-g-i-l-r-s-y" | |
+4 letters: disparagingly. | |
+5 letters: discouragingly. | |
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