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world-ash

world-ash noun: yggdrasil.

Noun

world-ash

  1. (Germanic, Norse) Yggdrasil.
    • Ash is a strongly runic tree by implication, the world-ash Yggdrasil being the tree from which Odin hung in order to obatin the runes.1993, Bernard King, The elements of the Runes, Thorsons Element, →ISBN, page 95
    • This eventuality would not be surprising if the world ash was, at the time, a small young tree.1988, David A. White, The turning wheel: a study of contracts and oaths in Wagner's ring, page 108

Forms of world-ash

alternative formworld ash

Questions about world-ash

What does world-ash mean?
World-ash means yggdrasil.
What part of speech is world-ash?
World-ash is a noun.

Words near world-ash in the dictionary

  1. world's record
  2. world's records
  3. world's smallest violin
  4. world's soul
  5. world's tiniest violin
  6. world-ash
  7. world-beater
  8. world-beaters
  9. world-beating
  10. world-building
  11. world-class

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