Sleipnir

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Norse Sleipnir (“the slipper, the slippy one”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈsleipnɪr/

Proper noun

Sleipnir

1. (Norse mythology) The eight-legged horse of Odin.
   • 1866, Charles Kingsley, chapter 33, in Hereward the Wake, London: Nelson, page 443:

     And Ranald swore first by the white Christ, and then by the head of Sleipnir, Odin’s horse[.]