different between valkyrie vs sprite

English

Alternative forms

• Valkyria
• Valkyrie
• Walkyrie

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Norse valkyrja sg (“chooser of the slain”), plural valkyrjur pl, from Proto-Germanic *walakuzj?. Cognate to Old English wælcyrge. First attested in English as a proper noun (Valkyries) in the 1770s; attested as a common noun (valkyries) since the 1880s.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?væl?k?.?i/

Noun

valkyrie (plural valkyries)

1. (Norse mythology) Any of the female attendants of Odin, figures said to guide fallen warriors from the battlefield to Valhalla.

Translations

See also

Further reading

• valkyrie on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse valkyrja, from Proto-Germanic *walakuzj?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /valky?ri?/, [val?k?y???i?]

Noun

valkyrie c (singular definite valkyrien, plural indefinite valkyrier)

1. valkyrie
2. fury, virago (a large, strong, courageous or aggressive woman)

Inflection

Further reading

• valkyrie on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

English

Alternative forms

• spright (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English sprite, spryt, spreyte, from Old French esprit (“spirit”), from Latin spiritus. Doublet of spirit.

(computer graphics): First used by Danny Hillis at Texas Instruments in the late 1970s.

Pronunciation

• enPR: spr?t, IPA^(key): /sp?a?t/
• Rhymes: -a?t

Noun

sprite (plural sprites)

1. (mythology) A spirit; a soul; a shade
   • 1803, William Blake, Auguries of Innocence

     He who torments the chafer's sprite

     Weaves a bower in endless night.

2. An apparition; ghost
3. (mythology) An elf; a fairy; a goblin.
4. (computer graphics) A two-dimensional image or animation that is integrated into a larger scene.
5. An electrical discharge that occurs high above the cumulonimbus cloud of an active thunderstorm.
6. The green woodpecker, or yaffle.
7. (entomology) Any of various African damselflies of the genus Pseudagrion (of which, Australian species are named riverdamsels).
8. A spayed female ferret.
9. (obsolete) Alternative form of spright (“frame of mind, disposition”)

Synonyms

• (supernatural creature): See goblin (hostile)

Related terms

• sprightly

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ????? (supuraito)

Translations

Anagrams

• Pitres, Presti, Priest, esprit, pierst, priest, re-tips, respit, retips, ripest, sitrep, stripe, tripes

Finnish

Etymology

From English sprite.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sprite/, [?s?prit?e?]
• IPA^(key): /?spr?i?t?i/, [?s?pr?i?t??i] (approximating English pronunciation; inflects like risti)
• Rhymes: -ite
• Syllabification: spri?te

Noun

sprite

1. (computer graphics) sprite

Declension

Anagrams

• ripset