Yggdrasil
The name is derived from Odin’s name Yggr (the deep thinker), and drasil (carrier) - it therefore means the Bearer or Manifestor of God.
Harper’s Book of Facts, 1905.
The name is derived from Odin’s name Yggr (the deep thinker), and drasil (carrier) - it therefore means the Bearer or Manifestor of God.
Harper’s Book of Facts, 1905.
A felicitous term invented by W.W. Skeat to characterize those words which have no real existence in language or literature, but have been admitted into dictionaries through some blunder slavishly adhered to by successive lexicographers.
Handy-book of Literary Curiosities by William S. Walsh, 1892.
