encantar

es-verb

encantar (first-person singular present encanto, first-person singular preterite encanté, past participle encantado)

encanto (first-person present singular)
encanté (first-person preterite singular)
encantado (participle past)
encantar (infinitive)
encantando (gerund)
encantado (masculine participle past singular)
encantada (feminine participle past singular)
encantados (masculine participle past plural)
encantadas (feminine participle past plural)
encanto (first-person indicative present singular)
encantas (indicative informal present second-person singular)
encantás (indicative informal present second-person singular vos-form)
encanta (indicative present singular third-person)
encantamos (first-person indicative plural present)
encantáis (indicative plural present second-person)
encantan (indicative plural present third-person)
encantaba (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
encantabas (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
encantaba (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
encantábamos (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
encantabais (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
encantaban (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
encanté (first-person indicative preterite singular)
encantaste (indicative preterite second-person singular)
encantó (indicative preterite singular third-person)
encantamos (first-person indicative plural preterite)
encantasteis (indicative plural preterite second-person)
encantaron (indicative plural preterite third-person)
encantaré (first-person future indicative singular)
encantarás (future indicative second-person singular)
encantará (future indicative singular third-person)
encantaremos (first-person future indicative plural)
encantaréis (future indicative plural second-person)
encantarán (future indicative plural third-person)
encantaría (conditional first-person indicative singular)
encantarías (conditional indicative second-person singular)
encantaría (conditional indicative singular third-person)
encantaríamos (conditional first-person indicative plural)
encantaríais (conditional indicative plural second-person)
encantarían (conditional indicative plural third-person)
encante (first-person present singular subjunctive)
encantes (informal present second-person singular subjunctive)
encantés (informal present second-person singular subjunctive vos-form)
encante (present singular subjunctive third-person)
encantemos (first-person plural present subjunctive)
encantéis (plural present second-person subjunctive)
encanten (plural present subjunctive third-person)
encantara (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
encantaras (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
encantara (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
encantáramos (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
encantarais (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
encantaran (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
encantase (first-person imperfect imperfect-se singular subjunctive)
encantases (imperfect imperfect-se second-person singular subjunctive)
encantase (imperfect imperfect-se singular subjunctive third-person)
encantásemos (first-person imperfect imperfect-se plural subjunctive)
encantaseis (imperfect imperfect-se plural second-person subjunctive)
encantasen (imperfect imperfect-se plural subjunctive third-person)
encantare (first-person future singular subjunctive)
encantares (future second-person singular subjunctive)
encantare (future singular subjunctive third-person)
encantáremos (first-person future plural subjunctive)
encantareis (future plural second-person subjunctive)
encantaren (future plural subjunctive third-person)
encanta (imperative informal second-person singular)
encantá (imperative informal second-person singular vos-form)
encante (formal imperative second-person-semantically singular third-person)
encante (imperative singular third-person)
encantemos (first-person imperative plural)
encantad (imperative plural second-person)
encanten (formal imperative plural second-person-semantically third-person)
encanten (imperative plural third-person)
encantes (imperative negative second-person singular)
encante (formal imperative negative second-person-semantically singular third-person)
encante (imperative negative singular third-person)
encantemos (first-person imperative negative plural)
encantéis (imperative negative plural second-person)
encanten (formal imperative negative plural second-person-semantically third-person)
encanten (imperative negative plural third-person)
encantarme (combined-form dative infinitive object-first-person object-singular)
encantarte (combined-form dative infinitive object-second-person object-singular)
encantarle (combined-form dative infinitive object-singular object-third-person)
encantarse (combined-form dative infinitive object-singular object-third-person)
encantarnos (combined-form dative infinitive object-first-person object-plural)
encantaros (combined-form dative infinitive object-plural object-second-person)
encantarles (combined-form dative infinitive object-plural object-third-person)
encantarse (combined-form dative infinitive object-plural object-third-person)
encantarme (accusative combined-form infinitive object-first-person object-singular)
encantarte (accusative combined-form infinitive object-second-person object-singular)
encantarlo (accusative combined-form infinitive object-singular object-third-person)
encantarla (accusative combined-form infinitive object-singular object-third-person)
encantarse (accusative combined-form infinitive object-singular object-third-person)
encantarnos (accusative combined-form infinitive object-first-person object-plural)
encantaros (accusative combined-form infinitive object-plural object-second-person)
encantarlos (accusative combined-form infinitive object-plural object-third-person)
encantarlas (accusative combined-form infinitive object-plural object-third-person)
encantarse (accusative combined-form infinitive object-plural object-third-person)
encantándome (combined-form dative gerund object-first-person object-singular)
encantándote (combined-form dative gerund object-second-person object-singular)
encantándole (combined-form dative gerund object-singular object-third-person)
encantándose (combined-form dative gerund object-singular object-third-person)
encantándonos (combined-form dative gerund object-first-person object-plural)
encantándoos (combined-form dative gerund object-plural object-second-person)
encantándoles (combined-form dative gerund object-plural object-third-person)
encantándose (combined-form dative gerund object-plural object-third-person)
encantándome (accusative combined-form gerund object-first-person object-singular)
encantándote (accusative combined-form gerund object-second-person object-singular)
encantándolo (accusative combined-form gerund object-singular object-third-person)
encantándola (accusative combined-form gerund object-singular object-third-person)
encantándose (accusative combined-form gerund object-singular object-third-person)
encantándonos (accusative combined-form gerund object-first-person object-plural)
encantándoos (accusative combined-form gerund object-plural object-second-person)
encantándolos (accusative combined-form gerund object-plural object-third-person)
encantándolas (accusative combined-form gerund object-plural object-third-person)
encantándose (accusative combined-form gerund object-plural object-third-person)
encántame (combined-form dative imperative informal object-first-person object-singular second-person singular with-tú)
encántate (combined-form dative imperative informal object-second-person object-singular second-person singular with-tú)
encántale (combined-form dative imperative informal object-singular object-third-person second-person singular with-tú)
encántanos (combined-form dative imperative informal object-first-person object-plural second-person singular with-tú)
encántales (combined-form dative imperative informal object-plural object-third-person second-person singular with-tú)
encántame (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-first-person object-singular second-person singular with-tú)
encántate (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-second-person object-singular second-person singular with-tú)
encántalo (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-singular object-third-person second-person singular with-tú)
encántala (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-singular object-third-person second-person singular with-tú)
encántanos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-first-person object-plural second-person singular with-tú)
encántalos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-third-person second-person singular with-tú)
encántalas (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-third-person second-person singular with-tú)
encantame (combined-form dative imperative informal object-first-person object-singular second-person singular with-vos)
encantate (combined-form dative imperative informal object-second-person object-singular second-person singular with-vos)
encantale (combined-form dative imperative informal object-singular object-third-person second-person singular with-vos)
encantanos (combined-form dative imperative informal object-first-person object-plural second-person singular with-vos)
encantales (combined-form dative imperative informal object-plural object-third-person second-person singular with-vos)
encantame (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-first-person object-singular second-person singular with-vos)
encantate (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-second-person object-singular second-person singular with-vos)
encantalo (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-singular object-third-person second-person singular with-vos)
encantala (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-singular object-third-person second-person singular with-vos)
encantanos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-first-person object-plural second-person singular with-vos)
encantalos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-third-person second-person singular with-vos)
encantalas (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-third-person second-person singular with-vos)
encánteme (combined-form dative formal imperative object-first-person object-singular second-person singular)
encántele (combined-form dative formal imperative object-singular object-third-person second-person singular)
encántese (combined-form dative formal imperative object-singular object-third-person second-person singular)
encántenos (combined-form dative formal imperative object-first-person object-plural second-person singular)
encánteles (combined-form dative formal imperative object-plural object-third-person second-person singular)
encánteme (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-first-person object-singular second-person singular)
encántelo (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-singular object-third-person second-person singular)
encántela (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-singular object-third-person second-person singular)
encántese (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-singular object-third-person second-person singular)
encántenos (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-first-person object-plural second-person singular)
encántelos (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-plural object-third-person second-person singular)
encántelas (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-plural object-third-person second-person singular)
encantémoste (combined-form dative first-person imperative object-second-person object-singular plural)
encantémosle (combined-form dative first-person imperative object-singular object-third-person plural)
encantémonos (combined-form dative first-person imperative object-first-person object-plural plural)
encantémoos (combined-form dative first-person imperative object-plural object-second-person plural)
encantémosles (combined-form dative first-person imperative object-plural object-third-person plural)
encantémoste (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-second-person object-singular plural)
encantémoslo (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-singular object-third-person plural)
encantémosla (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-singular object-third-person plural)
encantémonos (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-first-person object-plural plural)
encantémoos (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-plural object-second-person plural)
encantémoslos (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-plural object-third-person plural)
encantémoslas (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-plural object-third-person plural)
encantadme (combined-form dative imperative informal object-first-person object-singular plural second-person)
encantadle (combined-form dative imperative informal object-singular object-third-person plural second-person)
encantadnos (combined-form dative imperative informal object-first-person object-plural plural second-person)
encantaos (combined-form dative imperative informal object-plural object-second-person plural second-person)
encantadles (combined-form dative imperative informal object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
encantadme (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-first-person object-singular plural second-person)
encantadlo (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-singular object-third-person plural second-person)
encantadla (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-singular object-third-person plural second-person)
encantadnos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-first-person object-plural plural second-person)
encantaos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-second-person plural second-person)
encantadlos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
encantadlas (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
encántenme (combined-form dative formal imperative object-first-person object-singular plural second-person)
encántenle (combined-form dative formal imperative object-singular object-third-person plural second-person)
encántennos (combined-form dative formal imperative object-first-person object-plural plural second-person)
encántenles (combined-form dative formal imperative object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
encántense (combined-form dative formal imperative object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
encántenme (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-first-person object-singular plural second-person)
encántenlo (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-singular object-third-person plural second-person)
encántenla (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-singular object-third-person plural second-person)
encántennos (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-first-person object-plural plural second-person)
encántenlos (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
encántenlas (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
encántense (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)

[ẽŋ.kãn̪ˈt̪aɾ]

From Latin incantāre, possibly taken as a semi-learned term. Equivalent to en- + cantar.

Me encantan los mariscos.

to please, to delight, (with reversed subject and object) to like very much, love, enjoy


aloja

(folklore) a type of nymph or fairy woman believed to dwell in springs, pools, waterfalls, and lakes in areas of natural beauty


aloja

(historical) a drink made of hydromel flavoured with spices


dwarven

en-adj

dwarven (comparative more dwarven, superlative most dwarven)

more dwarven (comparative)
most dwarven (superlative)

(fantasy) Of, pertaining to, or made by or for dwarfs/dwarves.


elven

English: elven, elfe (obsolete)

From Old English elfen, ælfen (“nymph, spirit, fairy”), feminine of elf, ælf (“elf”); by surface analysis, elf + en (feminine suffix). Compare Middle High German elbinne (“fairy, nymph”).

cog

Ofte in fourme of wommane In many derne weye grete compaygnie men i-seoth of heom boþe hoppie and pleiᵹe, þat Eluene beoth i-cleopede

(Oft in the form of women, in very stealthy ways, great numbers of men see fallen angels both happy and playful, that Elvene are embraced,)

& ofte in wimmen fourme hii comeþ to men al so, Þat men clupeþ eluene. —

1300, The Metrical Chronicle of Robert of Gloucester:

(& oft in women form come hither to men, so that men lay with the elvene.)

A (especially female) elf, a fairy, nymph


encanto

Deverbal from encantar. Cognate with Portuguese encanto and Italian incanto.

(folklore) apparition, otherworldly entity


gloso

gloso (indefinite nominative singular)
glosos (genitive indefinite singular)
gloson (definite nominative singular)
glosons (definite genitive singular)
glosor (indefinite nominative plural)
glosors (genitive indefinite plural)
glosorna (definite nominative plural)
glosornas (definite genitive plural)

Compound of glo (“stare”) + so (“sow”). According to SAOB attested since 1863.

(folklore, Southern) A (often) white pig or boar with red sparking glowing eyes, large snout and fiery tusks, occasionally with a sharp serrated back and a tendency to run twixt the legs and cleave their victim.


manó

manók (plural)
manó (nominative singular)
manók (nominative plural)
manót (accusative singular)
manókat (accusative plural)
manónak (dative singular)
manóknak (dative plural)
manóval (instrumental singular)
manókkal (instrumental plural)
manóért (causal-final singular)
manókért (causal-final plural)
manóvá (singular translative)
manókká (plural translative)
manóig (singular terminative)
manókig (plural terminative)
manóként (essive-formal singular)
manókként (essive-formal plural)
manóban (inessive singular)
manókban (inessive plural)
manón (singular superessive)
manókon (plural superessive)
manónál (adessive singular)
manóknál (adessive plural)
manóba (illative singular)
manókba (illative plural)
manóra (singular sublative)
manókra (plural sublative)
manóhoz (allative singular)
manókhoz (allative plural)
manóból (elative singular)
manókból (elative plural)
manóról (delative singular)
manókról (delative plural)
manótól (ablative singular)
manóktól (ablative plural)
manóé (possessed-single possessive predicative singular)
manóké (plural possessed-single possessive predicative)
manóéi (possessed-single possessive predicative singular)
manókéi (plural possessed-single possessive predicative)
manóm (first-person possessed-single possessive singular)
manóim (first-person possessed-many possessive singular)
manód (possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
manóid (possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
manója (possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
manói (possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
manónk (first-person plural possessed-single possessive)
manóink (first-person plural possessed-many possessive)
manótok (plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
manóitok (plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
manójuk (plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
manóik (plural possessed-many possessive third-person)


serena

From Late Latin sirēna, from Latin Sīrēn, from Ancient Greek Σειρήν (Seirḗn).


suban

head

suban (definite accusative subani, plural subanlar)

subani (accusative definite)
subanlar (plural)
suban (nominative singular)
subanler (nominative plural)
subani (accusative definite singular)
subanleri (accusative definite plural)
subane (dative singular)
subanlere (dative plural)
subande (locative singular)
subanlerde (locative plural)
subanden (ablative singular)
subanlerden (ablative plural)
subanin (genitive singular)
subanlerin (genitive plural)
subanim (first-person nominative singular)
subanlerim (first-person nominative singular)
subanin (nominative second-person singular)
subanlerin (nominative second-person singular)
subani (nominative singular third-person)
subanleri (nominative singular third-person)
subanimiz (first-person nominative plural)
subanlerimiz (first-person nominative plural)
subaniniz (nominative plural second-person)
subanleriniz (nominative plural second-person)
subanleri (nominative plural third-person)
subanimi (accusative definite first-person singular)
subanlerimi (accusative definite first-person singular)
subanini (accusative definite second-person singular)
subanlerini (accusative definite second-person singular)
subanini (accusative definite singular third-person)
subanlerini (accusative definite singular third-person)
subanimizi (accusative definite first-person plural)
subanlerimizi (accusative definite first-person plural)
subaninizi (accusative definite plural second-person)
subanlerinizi (accusative definite plural second-person)
subanlerini (accusative definite plural third-person)
subanime (dative first-person singular)
subanlerime (dative first-person singular)
subanine (dative second-person singular)
subanlerine (dative second-person singular)
subanine (dative singular third-person)
subanlerine (dative singular third-person)
subanimize (dative first-person plural)
subanlerimize (dative first-person plural)
subaninize (dative plural second-person)
subanlerinize (dative plural second-person)
subanlerine (dative plural third-person)
subanimde (first-person locative singular)
subanlerimde (first-person locative singular)
subaninde (locative second-person singular)
subanlerinde (locative second-person singular)
subaninde (locative singular third-person)
subanlerinde (locative singular third-person)
subanimizde (first-person locative plural)
subanlerimizde (first-person locative plural)
subaninizde (locative plural second-person)
subanlerinizde (locative plural second-person)
subanlerinde (locative plural third-person)
subanimden (ablative first-person singular)
subanlerimden (ablative first-person singular)
subaninden (ablative second-person singular)
subanlerinden (ablative second-person singular)
subaninden (ablative singular third-person)
subanlerinden (ablative singular third-person)
subanimizden (ablative first-person plural)
subanlerimizden (ablative first-person plural)
subaninizden (ablative plural second-person)
subanlerinizden (ablative plural second-person)
subanlerinden (ablative plural third-person)
subanimin (first-person genitive singular)
subanlerimin (first-person genitive singular)
subaninin (genitive second-person singular)
subanlerinin (genitive second-person singular)
subaninin (genitive singular third-person)
subanlerinin (genitive singular third-person)
subanimizin (first-person genitive plural)
subanlerimizin (first-person genitive plural)
subaninizin (genitive plural second-person)
subanlerinizin (genitive plural second-person)
subanlerinin (genitive plural third-person)

From Ottoman Turkish ثعبان (suʿban), from Arabic ثُعْبَان (ṯuʕbān, “snake”).


gnomish

Whoever had taken Vanessa had brushed past the gnomish wizard with no more thought than one gave a mosquito, and the result of that encounter had been astonishingly violent—and final.

2011, David Niall Wilson, Heart of a Dragon:

(fantasy) Belonging to a race of gnomes.


houri

From French houri, from Persian حوری (hurî), from Arabic حُورِيّ (ḥūriyy) and Arabic حُورِيَّة (ḥūriyya), adjective and feminine singulative of حُور (ḥūr) from Classical Arabic حُورٌ عِينٌ (ḥūrun ʕīnun, “fair maidens, black-eyed ones”). See أَحْوَر m (ʔaḥwar), حَوْرَاء f (ḥawrāʔ) for the base adjective.

We cannot go into the technical details of his methodology but it allows Luxenberg, to the probable horror of all Muslim males dreaming of sexual bliss in the Muslim hereafter, to conjure away the wide-eyed houris promised to the faithful in suras XLIV.54; LII.20, LV.72, and LVI.22. Luxenberg's new analysis, leaning on the Hymns of Ephrem the Syrian, yields "white raisins" of "crystal clarity" rather than doe-eyed, and ever willing virgins - the houris.

2002 January 12, Ibn Warraq, “Virgins? What virgins?”, in The Guardian:

The repetition of material about the houri suggests that the popularization of that figure occurred as early as the ninth century and continued well into the twelfth century. By then, the houri had become a kind of metonymy for the Garden, as well as an accepted object. A new role of the houri as the superlative being of the Garden emerged through the use of traditions, and most of all the structure of the text. Al-Qadi's text provides an excellent example of the importance of the houri.

2009, Nerina Rustomji, The Garden and the Fire: Heaven and Hell in Islamic Culture, Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 114:

What if in paradise there are no houris waiting? / What if but all you get are grapes, succulent grapes? / What if it's all just a mistake in the translation?

2013, “What If…?”, in Still Smiling, performed by Teho Teardo and Blixa Bargeld:

Although the beauty of houris is described in terms of cosmic pureness and sumptuary materials, the qiyan are understood through attributes and affects. Yet, the houris have one constitutive attribute. They are fair and they have big eyes. Is the houri based on any particular model of beauty or a kind of female slave? Ibn Butlan, in his Risalafi shira'al-raqiq wa-taqlib al-abid, offers a rubric for female slaves; however, the descriptions of houris do not align with other descriptions of slaves.

2017, Matthew S. Gordon, Kathryn A. Hain, Concubines and Courtesans: Women and Slavery in Islamic History, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 274:

(Islam) A beautiful virgin girl supposed to dwell in Paradise for the enjoyment of the faithful.

حَوْرَاء

(Islam) a nymph in the form of a beautiful virgin

I would not exchange this one little English girl for the Grand Turk’s whole seraglio; gazelle-eyes, houri forms and all!

1847 October 16, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], chapter IX, in Jane Eyre. An Autobiography. […], volume II, London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], →OCLC, page 242:

“The town is full of temptations, sir,” continued Pen. The old gentleman thought of that houri, Mrs. O’Leary.

1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 74, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:

(by extension) Any voluptuous, beautiful woman.


hobgoblin

From hob (“elf”, from Hob, a variant of Rob, short for Robin Goodfellow, an elf in German folklore) + goblin.

af

a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds

A M. Berbiguier lately published an elaborate work, in three huge volumes, in which he demonstrated the existence of hobgoblins, described the proper manner of capturing and securing them, and took credit to himself for his zeal for the benefit of mankind, in allowing no day to pass without imprisoning, with his own hands, at least thirty hobgoblins. A writer of biographical notices of contemporary authors, who believed neither in M. Berbiguier's manner of catching hobgoblins nor in the existence of hobgoblins did not scruple to say that M. Berbiguier was mad, and upon this M. Berbiguier brought his action for libel; but unluckily, together with his action, he brought himself into Court, and established in a very few words the truth of the libel.

1837, Albany Fonblanque, England Under Seven Administrations, volume 1, page 98:

The eyes blinked out and he heard a faint grunt, followed by the sounds of the Hobgoblin scrambling further back into the tunnel, away from the faint sunlight and the Ur'hunglav's domain.

2005, Scott Harper, Winter's Rite, page 142:

The monster goes unrecognized because he looks like a harmless, pudgy nobody rather than like a hobgoblin. But he reveals his hobgoblin nature through music.

2007, “Introduction: Phonoplay: Recasting Film Music”, in Daniel Goldmark, Lawrence Kramer, Richard D. Leppert, editors, Beyond the Soundtrack: Representing Music in Cinema, page 1:

A small, ugly goblin that makes trouble for humans.


Lehen

Lehen (absolutive indefinite)
Lehenek (ergative indefinite)
Leheni (dative indefinite)
Lehenen (genitive indefinite)
Lehenekin (comitative indefinite)
Lehenengatik (causative indefinite)
Lehenentzat (benefactive indefinite)
Lehenez (indefinite instrumental)
Lehenengan (indefinite inessive)
Lehenengana (allative indefinite)
Lehenenganaino (indefinite terminative)
Lehenenganantz (directive indefinite)
Lehenenganako (destinative indefinite)
Lehenengandik (ablative indefinite)
Lehenik (indefinite partitive)
Lehentzat (indefinite prolative)

Orhit düzia Lehen-Süge hura ikhusirik, jinkoilluaren harra bere khokotsian bezala, bere egongiak lürpian edo ifernietan obratzen […]

You who saw the snake Lehen, do you remember how it built its underground residence […] like a male butterfly its cocoon?


giantess

From Middle English geauntesse, geaunesse, from Old French; equivalent to giant + -ess.

He spide far off a mighty Giauntesse / Fast flying, on a Courser dapled gray […]

1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

In the corner lay against the wall a stringed instrument not unlike a dulcimer, which, as people believe, the Giantesses used to play on.

1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 218:

The giantess picked him up and gave him such a squeeze that he felt he was going to choke.

1926, Enid Blyton, The Book of Brownies:

The giantesses lift arms like the trunks of sycamores, each finger tipped with an amaranthine talon.

1981, Gene Wolfe, chapter VIII, in The Claw of the Conciliator (The Book of the New Sun; 2), New York: Timescape, →ISBN, page 72:


จิงโจ้

→ Lao: ຈິງໂຈ້ (ching chō)

/t͡ɕiŋ˧.t͡ɕoː˥˩/

The noun originated from the cry of the bird, and was later applied to the marsupial (first attested around 1896), the bug, etc.
The adjective was from wordplay on จริงใจ (jing-jai, “sincere; faithful; truthful”).

th-l

(mythology and archaic) half-bird, half-man monster.


goule

Borrowed from Arabic غُول (ḡūl, “ghoul, demon”).


philtre

Borrowed from Latin philtrum, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek φίλτρον (phíltron). Unrelated to filtre.

Dans quel philtre, dans quel vin, dans quelle tisane, / Noierons-nous ce vieil ennemi, / Destructeur et gourmand comme la courtisane, / Patient comme la fourmi?

1857, Charles Baudelaire, “L'Irréparable”, in John Collings Squire, transl., Les Fleurs du mal:

What wine, what drug, what philtre known of man / Will drown this ancient foe, / Ruthless and ravenous as a courtesan, / Sure as an ant, and slow?

philter (a kind of potion, charm, or drug intended to make the drinker fall in love with the giver)


飛竜

ja-noun

飛(ひ)竜(りゅう) or 飛竜(ひりょう) • (hiryū or hiryō)

飛竜 (canonical)
飛竜 (canonical)
hiryū (romanization)
hiryō (romanization)

ワイバーン ワイバーン#Japanese


飛龍

New Latin: Feilongus

/feɪ̯⁵⁵ lʊŋ³⁵/

/fei̯⁵⁵ lʊŋ²¹/

/pue⁴⁴⁻²² liɪŋ²⁴/

/pue⁴⁴⁻²² liɪŋ¹³/

/pue⁴⁴⁻³³ liɪŋ²⁴/

/pue⁴⁴⁻³³ liɪŋ²³/

/pue³³⁻²³ leŋ⁵⁵/

/feɪ̯⁵⁵ lʊŋ³⁵/

/fei̯⁵⁵ lʊŋ²¹/

/pue⁴⁴⁻²² liɪŋ²⁴/

/pue⁴⁴⁻²² liɪŋ¹³/

/pue⁴⁴⁻³³ liɪŋ²⁴/

/pue⁴⁴⁻³³ liɪŋ²³/

/pue³³⁻²³ leŋ⁵⁵/


superluminal

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-superluminal.wav

The first thing to understand about superluminal expansion is that it isn't visible to the unaided eye. The objects that appear to be moving faster than light are emitting radio waves, not visible light.

1984, Edward Edelson, “Faster than light?”, in Popular Science, retrieved 2013-11-20, page 70:

(astronomy, physics, fiction, fantasy) Faster than light; having a speed greater than light.

(unpreferred translation due to hyperphoton, hyperphotonic: υπερφωτονικός m (yperfotonikós), υπερφωτονική f (yperfotonikí), υπερφωτονικό n (yperfotonikó))


regeneration

en-noun

regeneration (countable and uncountable, plural regenerations)

From re- + generation or regenerate + -ion, from Latin regenerātiō.

The standard ring of regeneration restores one point of damage per turn (and will eventually replace lost limbs or organs).

1995, David Zeb Cook, Jean Rabe, Warren Spector, Dungeon master guide for the AD&D game, page 202:

2003, Bastion Press, E. W. Morton, Out for Blood
Regeneration does not restore hit points lost from starvation, thirst, or suffocation.

(roleplaying games, fantasy) The ability to rapidly heal substantial physical damage to one's body, or to spontaneously restore hit points.


enchanter

/ɪnˈtʃɑːntə/

/ənˈtʃɑːntə/

/ɛnˈtʃɑːntə/

/ɪnˈt͡ʃæntɚ/

/ɛnˈt͡ʃæntɚ/

From Middle English enchantour, from Old French enchanteor (Modern French enchanteur), from Latin incantātor (“enchanter; spellcaster; conjurer”), from incantāre (“to sing, to consecrate with spells”). Doublet of incantator. Equivalent to enchant + -er.

der

1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Book One, Indianapolis: Hackett, 2006, Canto VII, stanza 35, p. 113,
No magicke arts hereof had any might, / Nor bloody wordes of bold Enchaunters call, / But all that was not such, as seemd in sight, / Before that shield did fade, and suddeine fall:

He was indeed as bitter an enemy to the savage authority too often exercised by husbands and fathers, over the young and lovely of the other sex, as ever knight-errant was to the barbarous power of enchanters; nay, to say truth, I have often suspected that those very enchanters with which romance everywhere abounds were in reality no other than the husbands of those days; and matrimony itself was, perhaps, the enchanted castle in which the nymphs were said to be confined.

1749, Henry Fielding, chapter VIII, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book XI:

[I]n the reign of Henry the Second, a body happening, by chance, to be dug up near Glastonbury Abbey, without any symptoms of putrefaction or decay, the Welch, the descendants of the Ancient Britons, tenacious of the dignity and reputation of that illustrious hero [King Arthur], vainly supposed it could be no other than the body of their justly-boasted Pen-Dragon; and that he had been immured in that sepulchre by the spells of some powerful and implacable inchanter.

1810, J[ohn] Stagg, “Arthur’s Cave. A Legendary Tale.”, in The Minstrel of the North: Or, Cumbrian Legends. […], London: Printed by Hamblin and Seyfang, […], for the author, and sold by J. Blacklock, […], →OCLC, page 105:

Thou from whose unseen presence the leaves dead / Are driven like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing,

1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ode to the West Wind, lines 2–3:

[…] Goldstein […] seemed like some sinister enchanter, capable by the mere power of his voice of wrecking the structure of civilization.

1949, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Part One, Chapter 1:

A spellcaster, conjurer, wizard, sorcerer or soothsayer who specializes in enchantments.


luspardan

head

luspardan m (genitive singular luspardain, plural luspardain)

luspardain (genitive singular)
luspardain (plural)


satori

en-noun

satori (usually uncountable, plural satoris)

Borrowed from Japanese 悟り (satori, “understanding; (Buddhism) enlightenment, satori”), from 悟る (satoru, “to perceive; to comprehend, understand; to come to enlightenment”), from Middle Chinese 悟 (nguH, “to become aware, apprehend, realize; to awaken”) (modern Mandarin 悟 (wù)), used to translate Pali bodhi (“supreme knowledge”) or its etymon Sanskrit बोधि (bodhi, “perfect knowledge or wisdom by which a person becomes a buddha or jina; enlightened or illuminated intellect of a Buddha or jina”).
Sense 3 (“mutant gene of Drosophila that causes homosexual behaviour in males”) was coined by the Japanese scientist Daisuke Yamamoto in a 1991 paper, based on the Japanese term.

coinage

We have isolated a new Drosophila mutant, satori (sat), the males of which do not court or copulate with female flies. […] We have screened about 2000 fly lines with single P-element insertions for altered sexual behavior, yielding a mutant named satori (sat; nirvana in Japanese), the males of which do not court or copulate with females. Instead, sat males exhibit homosexual courtship.

1996 September, Hiroki Ito, Daisuke Yamamoto [et al.], “Sexual Orientation in Drosophila is Altered by the Satori Mutation in the Sex-determination Gene Fruitless that Encodes a Zinc Finger Protein with a BTB Domain”, in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, volume 93, number 18, Washington, D.C.: National Academy of Sciences, →DOI, →ISSN, →JSTOR, →OCLC, →PMID, archived from the original on 2024-09-30, page 9687, column 1:

[T]he primary site of action of the fru gene should be in the neural cells. satori,^([sic]) one of the P-insertion alleles of fru which we isolated, carried the lacZ gene of E. coli as a reporter, and β-galactosidase expression was found in a subset of brain cells including those in the antennal lobe in the satori mutant.

1996 October, Daisuke Yamamoto, Hiroki Ito, Kazuko Fujitani, “Genetic Dissection of Sexual Orientation: Behavioral, Cellular, and Molecular Approaches in Drosophila melanogaster”, in Neuroscience Research: The Official Journal of the Japan Neuroscience Society, volume 26, number 2, Amsterdam: Elsevier Science, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, abstract, page 95:

In Drosophila the satori (sat) mutants of males do not court or copulate with females but have sexual interest in males.

1998, George P. Rédei, “HOMOSEXUAL”, in Genetics Manual: Current Theory, Concepts, Terms, Singapore; River Edge, N.J.: World Scientific, published 1999, →ISBN, page 484:

(countable, biochemistry) A mutant gene of Drosophila, a genus of fruit flies, that causes homosexual behaviour in males (specifically, courtship directed to other males).


borogove

/ˈbɒɹə(ʊ)ɡəʊv/

The borogove let out a quiet chirp. Another, larger borogove squirmed in through the hole in the fabric.

2006, David Brown, Kara Willey, The Worlds of Naughtenny Moore, →ISBN:

Its knee bent the wrong way, though Albert thought it was certainly the right way for the borogove . Another borogove popped out of the forest and followed the first across the road, then a third and a fourth .

2013, Mel Gilden, The Jabberwock Came Whiffling: A Novel of Fantasy, →ISBN, page 22:

It smelled like a wet borogove.

2014, Daniel Coleman, Jabberwocky: A Novel, →ISBN:

With the Borogove's long legs, they hop and step over some incoming attacks.

2015, Donald Weis, Monster Lore 2, →ISBN, page 12:

An animal introduced in the nonsense poem Jabberwocky. According to Humpty Dumpty, a borogove is "a thin shabby-looking bird with its feathers sticking out all round, something like a live mop." According to Mischmasch, it is "an extinct kind of parrot. They had no wings, beaks turned up, and made their nests under sun-dials: lived on veal."


σάτυρος

grc-noun

σᾰ́τῠρος • (sáturos) m (genitive σᾰτῠ́ρου); second declension

σᾰ́τῠρος (canonical)
sáturos (romanization)
σᾰτῠ́ρου (genitive)
ὁ σᾰ́τῠρος (nominative singular)
τὼ σᾰτῠ́ρω (dual nominative)
οἱ σᾰ́τῠροι (nominative plural)
τοῦ σᾰτῠ́ρου (genitive singular)
τοῖν σᾰτῠ́ροιν (dual genitive)
τῶν σᾰτῠ́ρων (genitive plural)
τῷ σᾰτῠ́ρῳ (dative singular)
τοῖν σᾰτῠ́ροιν (dative dual)
τοῖς σᾰτῠ́ροις (dative plural)
τὸν σᾰ́τῠρον (accusative singular)
τὼ σᾰτῠ́ρω (accusative dual)
τοὺς σᾰτῠ́ρους (accusative plural)
σᾰ́τῠρε (singular vocative)
σᾰτῠ́ρω (dual vocative)
σᾰ́τῠροι (plural vocative)

→ Latin: satyrus

→ English: satyr

→ Translingual: Satyrus

→ Old Armenian: սատիրոս (satiros)

→ Arabic: سَعْتَر (saʕtar)

→ Turkish: soytarı

→ Polish: satyr

→ Russian: сати́р m (satír)

Unknown; possibly loaned from a Pre-Greek substrate.


τίτυρος

τῑ́τῠρος • (tī́turos) m (genitive τῑτῠ́ρου); second declension

τῑ́τῠρος (canonical)
tī́turos (romanization)
τῑτῠ́ρου (genitive)
ὁ τῑ́τῠρος (nominative singular)
τὼ τῑτῠ́ρω (dual nominative)
τοὶ τῑ́τῠροι (nominative plural)
τοῦ τῑτῠ́ροιο (genitive singular)
τοῖν τῑτῠ́ροιν (dual genitive)
τῶν τῑτῠ́ρων (genitive plural)
τῷ τῑτῠ́ρῳ (dative singular)
τοῖν τῑτῠ́ροιν (dative dual)
τοῖς τῑτῠ́ροις (dative plural)
τὸν τῑ́τῠρον (accusative singular)
τὼ τῑτῠ́ρω (accusative dual)
τοὺς τῑτῠ́ρους (accusative plural)
τῑ́τῠρε (singular vocative)
τῑτῠ́ρω (dual vocative)
τῑ́τῠροι (plural vocative)

Furnée compares διθύραμβος (dithúrambos, “dithyramb”), which would contain a variant ot this word, with a suffix -αμβος. Previous proposals include connection with synonymous σάτυρος (sáturos, “satyr”), from Proto-Indo-European *tewh₂- (“to swell”) by Solmsen. This is rejected by Nehring, who considers both words to be loans from Asia Minor. Deroy connects the suffix -τυρος with ταῦρος (taûros, “bull”). According to Beekes, the word is Pre-Greek.


merfolk

Mythical creatures that are human from the waist up and fish from the waist down.


basilisco

Borrowed from Latin basiliscus, from Ancient Greek βασιλίσκος (basilískos, “little king”), diminutive of βασιλεύς (basileús, “chief, king”).


thunderbird

A man there was, grim his expression, just like a Thunderbird his features were frightening.

1999, Andrew George, transl., Gilgamesh, section VII:

(mythology) A mythological bird, often associated with stormy weather, especially in various indigenous North American mythologies.


elfo

eo-head

elfo (accusative singular elfon, plural elfoj, accusative plural elfojn)

elfon (accusative singular)
elfoj (plural)
elfojn (accusative plural)


elfo

pt-noun

elfo m (plural elfos, feminine elfa or elfo, feminine plural elfas or elfos)

elfos (plural)
elfa (feminine)
elfo (feminine)
elfas (feminine plural)
elfos (feminine plural)

Borrowed from English elf, from Middle English, from Old English ælf (“incubus, elf”), from Proto-Germanic *albiz (“fairy, elf”).

(Norse mythology) elf (a mythical being)


Дед Мороз

ru-proper noun+

Де́д Моро́з • (Déd Moróz) m anim (genitive Де́да Моро́за, nominative plural Де́ды Моро́зы, genitive plural Де́дов Моро́зов)

Де́д Моро́з (canonical)
Déd Moróz (romanization)
Де́да Моро́за (genitive)
Де́ды Моро́зы (nominative plural)
Де́дов Моро́зов (genitive plural)
Де́д Моро́з (nominative singular)
Де́ды Моро́зы (nominative plural)
Де́да Моро́за (genitive singular)
Де́дов Моро́зов (genitive plural)
Де́ду Моро́зу (dative singular)
Де́дам Моро́зам (dative plural)
Де́да Моро́за (accusative singular)
Де́дов Моро́зов (accusative plural)
Де́дом Моро́зом (instrumental singular)
Де́дами Моро́зами (instrumental plural)
Де́де Моро́зе (prepositional singular)
Де́дах Моро́зах (plural prepositional)

→ English: Ded Moroz

LL-Q7737 (rus)-Tatiana Kerbush-Дед Мороз.wav

Дѣ́дъ Моро́зъ — Pre-reform orthography (1918)

Father Christmas, Father Frost (equivalent to Santa Claus).


Hogwarts

desc

Translingual: Dracorex hogwartsia (species of dinosaur, now recognized as a juvenile form of Pachycephalosaurus)

Coined by J. K. Rowling in her 1997 book Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.
Rowling has speculated that she might have subconsciously produced the name from hogwort, a plant she saw when walking round Kew Gardens.
Previously used by Geoffrey Willans in his 1953 book Down With Skool (which J. K. Rowling has read - see the article). Willan’s use was as the title of a fictitious play, “The Hogwarts”, referred to in the book as the creation of Marcus Plautus Molesworthus.
According to the article Hogwarts, the name is a simple compound hog + warts (cf. warthog).

Buffy: No, but, see, Mom, that doesn't really work for me. We're just going to the magic shop, no school supplies there.
Dawn: Yeah, Mom. I'm not going to Hogwarts.

2000, “Real Me”, episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Remember [...] what it was like to enter your first public or private school, or to arrive at places like Oxford, or Yale, or the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry?

2004, John Lewis Gaddis, The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past, page 5:

2005 A Modern Introduction To Probability And Statistics: Understanding Why and How by Michel Dekking, Frederik Michel Dekking, Cor Kraaikamp, H. P. Lopuhaä, L. E. Meester (page 126) http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN1852338962&id=XLUMIlombgQC&pg=PA126&lpg=PA126&ots=846rcIuft_&dq=%22+have+to+be+a+student+at+Hogwarts+to+be+able+to+get+the+values+of+p+night%22&sig=d0PEF2RXCs5j1EQECJuf-2QoSdQ
Since px(0), px(1), py(0) and py(1) are all equal to 1/2, knowing only px and py yields no information on ε whatsoever. You have to be a student at Hogwarts to be able to get the values of p right!

2005 2005 Wicca Almanac by various, Llewellyn, Elizabeth Barrette http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0738703087&id=wdVSV_qgBksC&pg=PA49&lpg=PA49&dq=hogwarts&sig=APdluHbvH2rKPLxTvxx6e7tpYkY
Teaching, if you've never done it, is a difficult task. There isn't a real-life Hogwarts to send your aspiring young Witch or wizard to, so teaching children falls to you, the parent.

When people plan out their actions, they do more. When they write out their fears, they solve more. You do not need to be a Hogwarts grad to master that type of magic.

2007, Steve Prentice, Cool Down: Getting Further by Going Slower, Wiley, page 190:

Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, a school for learning magic in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series.


nathair-sgiathach

head

nathair-sgiathach f (genitive singular nathrach-sgiathaich, plural nathraichean-sgiathach)

nathrach-sgiathaich (genitive singular)
nathraichean-sgiathach (plural)


couatl

Borrowed from Classical Nahuatl cōātl (“snake”); influenced by Quetzalcoatl.

bor+

So rare as to be considered almost legendary, the couatl is one of the most beautiful creatures in existence.

1993, Doug Stewart, Gary Gygax, Monstrous Manual, page 46:

Winged, feathered serpents of considerable size and power, the couatl seeks to defend its territory against all invaders. Couatls are not malicious by nature, and frequently appoint themselves the guardians of humanoids within their domain, provided said humanoids are willing to offer it the occasional tribute.

2012, Timothy Groves, The Book Of Creatures, page 44:

For this reason, a couatl probably won't use it except to save a seriously wounded ally from imminent death, and in that case, it follows up with a sanctuary spell on its next turn, then spends the remainder of combat closely defending that ally.

2019, Keith Ammann, The Monsters Know What They're Doing:

(fantasy, mythology) A feathered flying serpent with psionic abilities.


幽霊

幽霊 (canonical)
yūrei (romanization)
iurei (romanization)
いうれい (hiragana historical)

From Middle Chinese compound 幽靈／幽灵 (ʔjiw leng, literally “dark + supernatural”). Compare modern Mandarin reading yōulíng, Min Nan iu-lêng.

死霊, 死霊

a spirit of the dead, a ghost, a departed soul

幽霊会社: a phantom company: a paper company

phantom stock: company stock that has not actually been traded

幽霊人口 ゆうれいじんこう

幽霊人口: phantom population: population figures that are artificially inflated from fraudulent paperwork

幽霊文字

ghost characters, Chinese characters of unknown origin or meaning

幽霊屋敷

幽霊屋敷 ゆうれいやしき


幽霊

ryu-head

幽霊(ゆーりー) (yūrī)


vampirism

en-noun

vampirism (usually uncountable, plural vampirisms)

(mythology) The state of being a vampire.


lizardman

(fantasy) An intelligent man-sized lizard who walks on hind legs and speaks and dresses similar to humans.


half-elf

(fantasy) A person who is half elven and half human by birth.


гоблин

goblin (romanization)
гоблин (nominative singular)
гоблиндар (nominative plural)
гоблинның (genitive singular)
гоблиндардың (genitive plural)
гоблинға (dative singular)
гоблиндарға (dative plural)
гоблинды (accusative singular)
гоблиндарды (accusative plural)
гоблинда (locative singular)
гоблиндарда (locative plural)
гоблиннан (ablative singular)
гоблиндардан (ablative plural)
гоблинмен (instrumental singular)
гоблиндармен (instrumental plural)

kk-decl-noun

гоблиндардың

гоблиндардан

гоблиндармен

Borrowed from Russian го́блин (góblin), from English goblin, ultimately from Ancient Greek κόβαλος (kóbalos, “rogue; knave”).


гоблин

ru-noun+

го́блин • (góblin) m anim (genitive го́блина, nominative plural го́блины, genitive plural го́блинов)

го́блин (canonical)
góblin (romanization)
го́блина (genitive)
го́блины (nominative plural)
го́блинов (genitive plural)
го́блин (nominative singular)
го́блины (nominative plural)
го́блина (genitive singular)
го́блинов (genitive plural)
го́блину (dative singular)
го́блинам (dative plural)
го́блина (accusative singular)
го́блинов (accusative plural)
го́блином (instrumental singular)
го́блинами (instrumental plural)
го́блине (prepositional singular)
го́блинах (plural prepositional)


firefox

Calque of Finnish tulikettu or Finnish tulirepo.

A mythical creature in Finnish folklore, a fox with fiery or radiant fur, the reflection of which produces the northern lights.


妖精

妖精 (canonical)
yōsei (romanization)
eusei (romanization)
えうせい (hiragana historical)

1999 August 26, “フェアリー・ドラゴン [Fairy Dragon]”, in BOOSTER 4, Konami:

A very pretty dragon fairy that is surprisingly strong for a fairy.

妖精の中では意外と強い、とてもきれいなドラゴンの妖精。

Yōsei no naka de wa igai to tsuyoi, totemo kirei na doragon no yōsei.

Kore Yamazaki, “第1篇 April showers bring May flowers. [Composition 1: April showers bring May flowers.]”, in 魔法使いの嫁(The Ancient Magus Bride) [The Ancient Magus’ Bride], volume 1 (fiction), Tokyo: Mag Garden, page 23:

True true! Call us ‘neighbors’ or ‘good friends’ instead.

そうそう！《お隣さん》とか《良い友達》とか

そうそう！《お隣さん》とか《良い友達》とか

そうそう！《お隣さん》とか《良い友達》とか


ringwraith

From Ringwraith (fantasy character), in J. R. R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings; from ring + wraith.

It is twisted out of shape and used for base purposes by the ringwraiths, the bent ones among the intellectuals, for purposes that are transient...

1976, Proceedings and Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada, page 192:

...or shandy quaffers at tennis with Joan Hunter-Dunn, even though many of them are mere ringwraiths of the Thomson Empire.

1982, William Ready, Files on Parade: A Memoir, page 231:

This book, then, is a sort of tribute: an ode to the Himalaya of heavy rock, a paganish take on rock and roll, ringwraiths, and the iconic fetish of the gatefold LP."

2005, Erik Davis, Led Zeppelin IV, page 9:

A person who is loyal, as if bound or entranced, to a band, group or organization.


oupire

Borrowed from Polish upiór. Doublet of vampire.


groundling

From ground + -ling. Compare Old English grundling (“a groundling fish, grundel”).

cog

Any of various plants or animals living on or near the ground, as a benthic fish or bottom feeder, especially:

The poor plodding groundling, helpless and impotent, is swooped upon at will, day and night, completely wiped out at the whim of the low- flying plane, which soars off leaving complete and utter destruction behind it!

1937, Field Artillery Association (U.S.), The Field Artillery Journal - Volume 27, page 342:

He then enlisted in the air force and served as a groundling in North Africa, Sicily, and England.

2010, Erin Bried, How to Build a Fire: And Other Handy Things Your Grandfather Knew, →ISBN:

Present at the Battle of Jutland, he had been recalled for the duration of this war and, being in the area, he had come to see how his little lad was faring in the sky. I was given permission to fall out and join him, gladly setting aside my groundling's bayonet.

2012, Pat Cunningham, The Fear in the Sky: Vivid Memories of Bomber Aircrew in World War Two, →ISBN:

One who is confined to the ground, especially:

(military, slang) A soldier who fights on the ground or serves as ground crew, as opposed to a seaman, pilot, etc.

Simon noticed a groundling look intently at Walsingham's purse and nudge his mate.

2008, John Lambshead, Lucy's Blade, →ISBN, page 184:

One, a short groundling with dark leathery skin and long white hair, said, "It's not your house, Ventl. You, stranger, did you come here to trade?"

2015, Martha Wells, Stories of the Raksura: The Dead City & The Dark Earth Below, →ISBN:

It was obvious that the brown-haired groundling had been involved in some heavy hand-to-hand combat recently.

2016, Markus Heitz, Dark Paths: The Legends of the Alfar, →ISBN:

(fantasy) A member of a race that lives primarily underground, such as a dwarf.


bean-nighe

The washerwoman, a creature in Scottish mythology, akin to the Irish bean sí. She appears at a body of water (river, lake, or stream), washing the clothes (sometimes bloodstained) of somebody for whom death is near, as a warning to the person's family that death will come soon.


aon-adharcach

head

aon-adharcach m (genitive singular aon-adharcaich, plural aon-adharcaich)

aon-adharcaich (genitive singular)
aon-adharcaich (plural)
aon-adharcach
n-aon-adharcach (eclipsis)


tàcharan

tàcharan m (genitive singular tàcharain, plural tàcharanan)

tàcharain (genitive singular)
tàcharanan (plural)

From Old Irish tacharán (“orphan, waif”).


trpaslík

cs-noun

trpaslík m anim (female equivalent trpaslice)

trpaslice (feminine)
trpaslík (nominative singular)
trpaslíci (nominative plural)
trpaslíka (genitive singular)
trpaslíků (genitive plural)
trpaslíkovi (dative singular)
trpaslíku (dative singular)
trpaslíkům (dative plural)
trpaslíka (accusative singular)
trpaslíky (accusative plural)
trpaslíku (singular vocative)
trpaslíci (plural vocative)
trpaslíkovi (locative singular)
trpaslíku (locative singular)
trpaslících (locative plural)
trpaslíkem (instrumental singular)
trpaslíky (instrumental plural)

Derived from Old Church Slavonic трьпѧстъкъ (trĭpęstŭkŭ), from Proto-Slavic *tri + *pęstь + *-ikъ, literally "three fists tall". Compare French haut comme trois pommes.

der+

bílý trpaslík

červený trpaslík

hnědý trpaslík

(astronomy) dwarf (a star of relatively small size)


drak

cs-noun

drak m anim (female equivalent dračice or saň, related adjective dračí)

dračice (feminine)
saň (feminine)
dračí (adjective)
drak (nominative singular)
draci (nominative plural)
draka (genitive singular)
draků (genitive plural)
drakovi (dative singular)
draku (dative singular)
drakům (dative plural)
draka (accusative singular)
draky (accusative plural)
draku (singular vocative)
draci (plural vocative)
drakovi (locative singular)
draku (locative singular)
dracích (locative plural)
drakem (instrumental singular)
draky (instrumental plural)


vampiress

Here, the vampiress personifies righteous indignation, a one-woman lynch mob.

1975, Angela Carter, “The Art of Horrorzines”, in Shaking a Leg, Vintage, published 2013, page 551:


вампир

mk-noun

вампир • (vampir) m (plural вампири, feminine вампирка, relational adjective вампирски, diminutive вампирче, augmentative вампириште)

vampir (romanization)
вампири (plural)
вампирка (feminine)
вампирски (adjective relational)
вампирче (diminutive)
вампириште (augmentative)
вампир (indefinite singular)
вампири (indefinite plural)
вампирот (definite singular unspecified)
вампирите (definite plural unspecified)
вампиров (definite proximal singular)
вампириве (definite plural proximal)
вампирон (definite distal singular)
вампирине (definite distal plural)
вампиру (singular vocative)
вампири (plural vocative)
вампира (count-form plural)


вампир

ru-noun+

вампи́р • (vampír) m anim (genitive вампи́ра, nominative plural вампи́ры, genitive plural вампи́ров, feminine вампи́рша)

вампи́р (canonical)
vampír (romanization)
вампи́ра (genitive)
вампи́ры (nominative plural)
вампи́ров (genitive plural)
вампи́рша (feminine)
вампи́р (nominative singular)
вампи́ры (nominative plural)
вампи́ра (genitive singular)
вампи́ров (genitive plural)
вампи́ру (dative singular)
вампи́рам (dative plural)
вампи́ра (accusative singular)
вампи́ров (accusative plural)
вампи́ром (instrumental singular)
вампи́рами (instrumental plural)
вампи́ре (prepositional singular)
вампи́рах (plural prepositional)

→ Azerbaijani: vampir

→ Kazakh: вампир (vampir)

→ Kyrgyz: вампир (vampir)

→ Mongolian: вампир (vampir)

→ Turkmen: wampir

→ Uzbek: vampir

Borrowed from French vampire or German Vampir, from Serbo-Croatian vàmpīr, ultimately from Proto-Slavic *ǫpyrь. Doublet of упы́рь (upýrʹ).

vampire (mythological creature, also figuratively)


вампир

ва̀мпӣр (canonical masculine)
vàmpīr (romanization)
вампир (nominative singular)
вампири (nominative plural)
вампира (genitive singular)
вампира (genitive plural)
вампиру (dative singular)
вампирима (dative plural)
вампира (accusative singular)
вампире (accusative plural)
вампиру (singular vocative)
вампире (singular vocative)
вампири (plural vocative)
вампиру (locative singular)
вампирима (locative plural)
вампиром (instrumental singular)
вампирима (instrumental plural)

sh-decl-noun

вампиру / вампире

→? Albanian: dhampir


φοῖνιξ

grc-noun

φοῖνῐξ • (phoînix) m (genitive φοίνῑκος); third declension

φοῖνῐξ (canonical)
phoînix (romanization)
φοίνῑκος (genitive)
ὁ φοῖνῐξ (nominative singular)
τὼ φοίνῑκε (dual nominative)
οἱ φοίνῑκες (nominative plural)
τοῦ φοίνῑκος (genitive singular)
τοῖν φοινῑ́κοιν (dual genitive)
τῶν φοινῑ́κων (genitive plural)
τῷ φοίνῑκῐ (dative singular)
τοῖν φοινῑ́κοιν (dative dual)
τοῖς φοίνῑξῐ (dative plural)
φοίνῑξῐν (dative plural)
toîs phoínīxi (dative plural)
toîs phoínīxin (dative plural)
τὸν φοίνῑκᾰ (accusative singular)
τὼ φοίνῑκε (accusative dual)
τοὺς φοίνῑκᾰς (accusative plural)
φοῖνῐξ (singular vocative)
φοίνῑκε (dual vocative)
φοίνῑκες (plural vocative)

Greek: φοίνικας (foínikas)

→ Latin: phoenīx

desctree

→ Old Armenian: փիւնիկ (pʻiwnik), փիւնիկս (pʻiwniks), փիւնիկոս (pʻiwnikos), փիւնիքս (pʻiwnikʻs), փոնիքս (pʻonikʻs)
→ Armenian: փյունիկ (pʻyunik) (learned)
→ Old Georgian: ფუვინკაჲ (puvinḳay)

→ Old Georgian: ფჳნიქსი (pwiniksi)

The etymology surrounding all senses remains somewhat unclear. The fact that the dye came exclusively from Phoenicia assures some connection. However, it is unclear if it comes from native Greek or is a Phoenician loanword. The relationship in the sense of "mythical bird" and Egyptian bnw (“phoenix, Bennu bird”) is clear, but some have argued for a Semitic source (possibly Phoenician), perhaps related to the "dye" sense and the bird's red plumage. It has been argued both that the name of the tree derives from the bird and vice versa; it may be significant that Egyptian bnw can also mean both a mythical bird and the fruit of the date tree. Regardless of the etymology, the word traces back to the Mycenaean era, as evidenced by 𐀡𐀛𐀐 (po-ni-ke) and 𐀡𐀛𐀑𐀠 (po-ni-ki-pi) (most likely date palm). Compare Hebrew פֻּוָּ֕ה (puw·wā, “a clan's name”) and Arabic فُوَّه (fuwwah, “madder”), a plant whose root yields purple-red dye.

cog

(mythology) phoenix, the mythical bird derived from Egyptian mythology


dreki

fo-noun

dreki m (genitive singular dreka, plural drekar)

dreka (genitive singular)
drekar (plural)
dreki (indefinite nominative singular)
drekin (definite nominative singular)
drekar (indefinite nominative plural)
drekarnir (definite nominative plural)
dreka (accusative indefinite singular)
drekan (accusative definite singular)
drekar (accusative indefinite plural)
drekarnar (accusative definite plural)
dreka (dative indefinite singular)
drekanum (dative definite singular)
drekum (dative indefinite plural)
drekunum (dative definite plural)
dreka (genitive indefinite singular)
drekans (definite genitive singular)
dreka (genitive indefinite plural)
drekanna (definite genitive plural)

/ˈtɹɛːʰt͡ʃɪ/

From Old Norse dreki, borrowed from Middle Low German drake, from Proto-West Germanic *drakō.


dreki

head

dreki m (genitive singular dreka, nominative plural drekar)

dreka (genitive singular)
drekar (nominative plural)
dreki (indefinite nominative singular)
drekinn (definite nominative singular)
drekar (indefinite nominative plural)
drekarnir (definite nominative plural)
dreka (accusative indefinite singular)
drekann (accusative definite singular)
dreka (accusative indefinite plural)
drekana (accusative definite plural)
dreka (dative indefinite singular)
drekanum (dative definite singular)
drekum (dative indefinite plural)
drekunum (dative definite plural)
dreka (genitive indefinite singular)
drekans (definite genitive singular)
dreka (genitive indefinite plural)
drekanna (definite genitive plural)


demoness

In Judaism, Lilith abandoned heaven and became the first demoness on Earth.


vampir

az-noun

vampir (definite accusative vampiri, plural vampirlər)

vampiri (accusative definite)
vampirlər (plural)
vampir (nominative singular)
vampirlər (nominative plural)
vampiri (accusative definite singular)
vampirləri (accusative definite plural)
vampirə (dative singular)
vampirlərə (dative plural)
vampirdə (locative singular)
vampirlərdə (locative plural)
vampirdən (ablative singular)
vampirlərdən (ablative plural)
vampirin (definite genitive singular)
vampirlərin (definite genitive plural)
vampirim (first-person nominative possessed-single possessive singular)
vampirlərim (first-person nominative possessed-many possessive singular)
vampirin (nominative possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
vampirlərin (nominative possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
vampiri (nominative possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
vampirləri (nominative possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
vampirimiz (first-person nominative plural possessed-single possessive)
vampirlərimiz (first-person nominative plural possessed-many possessive)
vampiriniz (nominative plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
vampirləriniz (nominative plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
vampiri (nominative plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
vampirləri (nominative plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
vampirləri (nominative plural possessed-many possessive third-person)
vampirimi (accusative first-person possessed-single possessive singular)
vampirlərimi (accusative first-person possessed-many possessive singular)
vampirini (accusative possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
vampirlərini (accusative possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
vampirini (accusative possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
vampirlərini (accusative possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
vampirimizi (accusative first-person plural possessed-single possessive)
vampirlərimizi (accusative first-person plural possessed-many possessive)
vampirinizi (accusative plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
vampirlərinizi (accusative plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
vampirini (accusative plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
vampirlərini (accusative plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
vampirlərini (accusative plural possessed-many possessive third-person)
vampirimə (dative first-person possessed-single possessive singular)
vampirlərimə (dative first-person possessed-many possessive singular)
vampirinə (dative possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
vampirlərinə (dative possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
vampirinə (dative possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
vampirlərinə (dative possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
vampirimizə (dative first-person plural possessed-single possessive)
vampirlərimizə (dative first-person plural possessed-many possessive)
vampirinizə (dative plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
vampirlərinizə (dative plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
vampirinə (dative plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
vampirlərinə (dative plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
vampirlərinə (dative plural possessed-many possessive third-person)
vampirimdə (first-person locative possessed-single possessive singular)
vampirlərimdə (first-person locative possessed-many possessive singular)
vampirində (locative possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
vampirlərində (locative possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
vampirində (locative possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
vampirlərində (locative possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
vampirimizdə (first-person locative plural possessed-single possessive)
vampirlərimizdə (first-person locative plural possessed-many possessive)
vampirinizdə (locative plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
vampirlərinizdə (locative plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
vampirində (locative plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
vampirlərində (locative plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
vampirlərində (locative plural possessed-many possessive third-person)
vampirimdən (ablative first-person possessed-single possessive singular)
vampirlərimdən (ablative first-person possessed-many possessive singular)
vampirindən (ablative possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
vampirlərindən (ablative possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
vampirindən (ablative possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
vampirlərindən (ablative possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
vampirimizdən (ablative first-person plural possessed-single possessive)
vampirlərimizdən (ablative first-person plural possessed-many possessive)
vampirinizdən (ablative plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
vampirlərinizdən (ablative plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
vampirindən (ablative plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
vampirlərindən (ablative plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
vampirlərindən (ablative plural possessed-many possessive third-person)
vampirimin (first-person genitive possessed-single possessive singular)
vampirlərimin (first-person genitive possessed-many possessive singular)
vampirinin (genitive possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
vampirlərinin (genitive possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
vampirinin (genitive possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
vampirlərinin (genitive possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
vampirimizin (first-person genitive plural possessed-single possessive)
vampirlərimizin (first-person genitive plural possessed-many possessive)
vampirinizin (genitive plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
vampirlərinizin (genitive plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
vampirinin (genitive plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
vampirlərinin (genitive plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
vampirlərinin (genitive plural possessed-many possessive third-person)


vampir

ca-noun

vampir m (plural vampirs, feminine vampira)

Borrowed from French vampire. First attested in 1864.


vampir

vampir (nominative singular)
vampirler (nominative plural)
vampirniñ (genitive singular)
vampirlerniñ (genitive plural)
vampirge (dative singular)
vampirlerge (dative plural)
vampirni (accusative singular)
vampirlerni (accusative plural)
vampirde (locative singular)
vampirlerde (locative plural)
vampirden (ablative singular)
vampirlerden (ablative plural)


غول

gul (romanization)
غلان (plural)
اغوال (plural)

Turkish: gul

Borrowed from Arabic غُول (ḡūl, “ghoul, demon”).


enchantress

/ɪnˈt͡ʃæntɹɪs/

/ɛnˈt͡ʃæntɹɪs/

/ɪnˈtʃɑːntɹɪs/

/ɛnˈtʃɑːntɹɪs/

From Middle English enchaunteresse, from Old French enchanteresse; equivalent to enchanter + -ess.

His desire for that enchantress led him to financial ruin.


wendigo

en-noun

wendigo (plural wendigo or wendigos or wendigoes)

wendigo (plural)
wendigos (plural)
wendigoes (plural)

Borrowed from Ojibwe wiindigoo, from Proto-Algonquian *wi·nteko·wa (“owl; malevolent spirit, cannibalistic monster”). Compare Cree wihtikow, ᐃᐧᐦᑎᑯᐤ (iyhtikow, “greedy person; cannibal; giant man-eating monster”).

der

Through the pine woods of Keewaydin, / Over the snows of Shebandowan, / The Wendigo roams in the winter's frost / And pursues to destruction the hunter. / Yet no man can meet with the Wendigo, / No man can face him or see him; / Only his track in the snow is seen, / And lost is the hunter that sees it. […] The heart that ne'er quailed on the war-path / Turns to stone at the name of the Wendigo.

1905, Ernest Thompson Seton, “The Wendigo: Winter Death”, in Woodmyth & Fable, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC, page 161:

The Windigo is a flesh-eating, wintry demon with a man buried deep inside of it. In some Chippewa stories, a young girl vanquishes this monster by forcing boiling lard down its throat, thereby releasing the human at the core of ice.

1984, Louise Erdrich, “Windigo”, in Jacklight, New York, N.Y.: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, →ISBN:

The noun windigo [Ojibwa wīntikō, Cree wīhtikōw] refers to one of a class of anthropophagous monsters, “supernatural” from a non-Algonquian perspective, who exhibit grotesque physical and behavioral abnormalities and possess great spiritual and physical power.

1988 fall, Robert A. Brightman, “The Windigo in the Material World”, in Ethnohistory, volume 35, number 4, →DOI, →ISSN, →JSTOR, page 337:

A series of ‘wendigo’ killings – a ‘wendigo’ was an evil spirit clothed in human flesh – brought to the attention of Canadian law around the turn of the twentieth century represent the extension of Canadian law to the heart of traditional Indian culture. These killings, however, also represent the extent to which some of the First Nations defied or ignored that law. […] Machekequonabe, an Ojibwa, was found guilty of manslaughter in an 1896 trial for killing what he believed to be a wendigo. […] Furthermore, in additional cases it seems that Indians, in order to protect their religious and cultural beliefs from Canadian law, carefully distorted the facts of homicide cases to conceal that they were wendigo killings.

1998, Sidney L. Harring, “‘The Enforcement of the Extreme Penalty’: Canadian Law and the Ojibwa-Cree Spirit World”, in White Man’s Law: Native People in Nineteenth-century Canadian Jurisprudence, Toronto, Ont., Buffalo, N.Y., London: Published for The Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History by University of Toronto Press, →ISBN:

Suddenly, I was certain what I had found had been the rest of the dead girl. I told the others about it, then added, "God Almighty. It must have been eating her." / "I think I know this creature," said Gwennie, and we all looked at her. "It called a wendigo. A most terrible thing." […] / Gwennie shook her head. "It is an evil creature. I hear of it once when I traveled far from here. The Ojibwe brave who told me about creature say it is a beast of the north, of the cold."

2004 September, Michael Jensen, chapter 9, in Firelands, Los Angeles, Calif.: Alyson Books, →ISBN, page 130:

No one is safe in such times, not even the Cree of Mushkegowuk. War touches everyone, and windigos spring from the earth.

2005, Joseph Boyden, Three Day Road: A Novel, Toronto, Ont.: Viking Canada, →ISBN; republished Toronto, Ont.: Penguin Canada, 2008, →ISBN, page 49:

[Abstract, page iv] To close, I demarcate the trend of American television shows to appropriate the wendigo, ascertaining a fundamental misunderstanding of indigenous cultural beliefs by American popular culture. […] [Introduction, page 2] The wendigo is a cannibal monster from the traditional stories of many northern tribes, specifically the Anishinabe stories, and is most often associated with winter and desperate hunger.

2016, Michelle Lietz, Cannibalism in Contact Narratives and the Evolution of the Wendigo (unpublished M.A. dissertation), Ypsilanti, Mich.: Eastern Michigan University, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2017-07-12, pages iv and 2:

(mythology) A malevolent and violent cannibal spirit found in Anishinaabe, Ojibwe, and Cree mythology, which is said to inhabit the body of a living person and possess him or her to commit murder.

وِينْدِيجُو

malevolent and violent cannibal spirit in Anishinaabe, Ojibwe, and Cree mythology


Cerberus

From Latin Cerberus, from Ancient Greek Κέρβερος (Kérberos), of unknown origin.

(Greek mythology) The giant three-headed dog who guards the entrance to Hades; and one of the many offspring of Echidna and Typhon.


хоббит

ru-noun+

хо́ббит • (xóbbit) m anim (genitive хо́ббита, nominative plural хо́ббиты, genitive plural хо́ббитов)

хо́ббит (canonical)
xóbbit (romanization)
хо́ббита (genitive)
хо́ббиты (nominative plural)
хо́ббитов (genitive plural)
хо́ббит (nominative singular)
хо́ббиты (nominative plural)
хо́ббита (genitive singular)
хо́ббитов (genitive plural)
хо́ббиту (dative singular)
хо́ббитам (dative plural)
хо́ббита (accusative singular)
хо́ббитов (accusative plural)
хо́ббитом (instrumental singular)
хо́ббитами (instrumental plural)
хо́ббите (prepositional singular)
хо́ббитах (plural prepositional)


duch

duszek (diminutive)
duch (nominative singular)
duchy (nominative plural)
ducha (genitive singular)
duchów (genitive plural)
duchowi (dative singular)
duchom (dative plural)
ducha (accusative singular)
duchy (accusative plural)
duchem (instrumental singular)
duchami (instrumental plural)
duchu (locative singular)
duchach (locative plural)
duchu (singular vocative)
duchy (plural vocative)

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gobelin

Borrowed from Old Northern French gobelin (compare Norman goubelin, Walloon gobelin), possibly a blend of Old Dutch *kobeholdo (“goblin”) (compare Dutch kabouter, German Kobold) and Late Latin cobalus (“mountain sprite”), from Ancient Greek κόβαλος (kóbalos, “rogue, knave; goblin”).


Elfe

de-noun

Elfe m (weak, genitive Elfen, plural Elfen)

Elfen (genitive)
Elfen (plural)
Elfe (nominative singular)
Elfen (definite nominative plural)
Elfen (genitive singular)
Elfen (definite genitive plural)
Elfen (dative singular)
Elfen (dative definite plural)
Elfen (accusative singular)
Elfen (accusative definite plural)

Borrowed in the 18th century from English elf, from Old English ælf (“incubus, elf”), from Proto-West Germanic *albi, from Proto-Germanic *albiz. Compare German Alb (“two-faced spirit”).

Unsterblich sollst du und ein Elfe sein!

1855, William Shakespeare, translated by Carl Abel, Ein Sommernachtstraum, Leipzig, page 45:

War er ein Nix oder ein Elfe?

1874, Heinrich Heine's sämmtliche Werke. Siebenter Band. Über Deutschland. Dritter Theil. Elementargeister und Dämonen., Hamburg, page 50:


Laestrygonian

From Ancient Greek Λαιστρυγόνες (Laistrugónes).

bor

Λαιστρυγόνες

1900, (translated by) George Herbert Palmer, The Odyssey of Homer, Houghton, Mifflin and Company
Before town they met a maiden drawing water, the stately daughter of the Laestrygonian Antiphades.

(Greek mythology) A member of a mythical Greek tribe of man-eating giants.


amphisbaena

From Latin amphisbaena, from Ancient Greek ἀμφίσβαινα (amphísbaina, from ἀμφίς (amphís, “both ways”) + βαίνω (baínō, “I go”)).

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1971: What do you call that animal that goes backward and forward, head at each end? —'Amphisbaena'. A kind of lizard. It doesn't exist. — Anthony Burgess, M/F (Penguin 2004, p. 109)

(mythology) A mythical serpent having a head at each end of its body, able to move in either direction.


gish

The term originates in the Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) game, where it originally referred to a Githyanki fighter/wizard combination. Gish is not an official term used in D&D referring to this, but is also used to refer to any character who has a martial/spellcasting combination of abilities.

Most gishes use their magical abilities to increase their own personal combat abilities (known as "buffing").

(fantasy roleplaying games) A character that is skilled in both physical combat and the use of magic.


Kobold

de-noun

Kobold m (strong, genitive Koboldes or Kobolds, plural Kobolde)

Koboldes (genitive)
Kobolds (genitive)
Kobolde (plural)
Kobold (nominative singular)
Kobolde (definite nominative plural)
Koboldes (genitive singular)
Kobolds (genitive singular)
Kobolde (definite genitive plural)
Kobold (dative singular)
Kobolde (dative singular)
Kobolden (dative definite plural)
Kobold (accusative singular)
Kobolde (accusative definite plural)

From Middle High German kobe (“shed, sty”) (modern Koben) + *holt (“goblin”), from hold (“friendly, gracious”), a euphemistic way of referring to the mischievous beings, from Proto-Germanic *hulþaz (“inclined, favorable”). Related to Dutch kabouter.


Zauberer

de-noun

Zauberer m (strong, genitive Zauberers, plural Zauberer, feminine Zauberin)

Zauberers (genitive)
Zauberer (plural)
Zauberin (feminine)
Zauberer (nominative singular)
Zauberer (definite nominative plural)
Zauberers (genitive singular)
Zauberer (definite genitive plural)
Zauberer (dative singular)
Zauberern (dative definite plural)
Zauberer (accusative singular)
Zauberer (accusative definite plural)

/ˈt͡saʊ̯bəʁɐ/

(male) magician, wizard, warlock, sorcerer


light elf

Back-formation from light elves, a calque of Old Norse ljósalfar.

Alfheim, where the light elves live. The light elves are as beautiful as the sun or the stars.

2017, Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology, Bloomsbury Publishing, page 20:

(Norse mythology) A member of the race of Ljósalfar, daylight dwelling elves or nature spirits (as opposed to the underground dwelling dark elves or dwarves).

(fantasy) One of a race of elves who live above ground and are radiant.


dark elf

Back-formation from dark elves, a calque of Old Norse dǫkkalfar.

Nidavellir, which is sometimes called Svartalfheim, where the dwarfs (who are also known as dark elves) live beneath the mountains and build their remarkable creations.

(Norse mythology) A member of the race of Dǫkkálfar or Dark Alfs, creatures who live underground.

(fantasy) A member of a race of elves that is evil, has a dark (often greyish or bluish) skin and/or lives in dark places.

temný elf

a member of a race of elves that is evil


Κέρβερος

grc-proper noun

Κέρβερος • (Kérberos) m (genitive Κερβέρου); second declension

Kérberos (romanization)
Κερβέρου (genitive)
ὁ Κέρβερος (nominative singular)
τοῦ Κερβέρου (genitive singular)
τῷ Κερβέρῳ (dative singular)
τὸν Κέρβερον (accusative singular)
Κέρβερε (singular vocative)

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→ Latin: Cerberus
Catalan: Cèrber
English: Cerberus
French: Cerbère
German: Zerberus
Italian: Cerbero
Polish: Cerber
Portuguese: Cérbero
Romanian: Cerber
Serbo-Croatian: Kerber
Spanish: Cerbero

Unknown. Suggested to be cognate with Sanskrit शबल (śabala), कर्बुर (karbura, “speckled, spotted”), from Late Proto-Indo-European *ḱerbero- (“dappled, spotted”) ( perhaps compare Spot as a popular dog's name in English), but this is phonetically problematic and is rejected by Beekes.

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Cerberus, the three-headed dog which guards the entrance to Hades


Vampir

de-noun

Vampir m (strong, genitive Vampires or Vampirs, plural Vampire, feminine Vampirin)

Vampires (genitive)
Vampirs (genitive)
Vampire (plural)
Vampirin (feminine)
Vampir (nominative singular)
Vampire (definite nominative plural)
Vampires (genitive singular)
Vampirs (genitive singular)
Vampire (definite genitive plural)
Vampir (dative singular)
Vampire (dative singular)
Vampiren (dative definite plural)
Vampir (accusative singular)
Vampire (accusative definite plural)

→ Danish: vampyr (see there for further descendants)

→ Dutch: vampier (see there for further descendants)

→ Estonian: vampiir

→ French: vampire (see there for further descendants)

→ Hungarian: vámpír

→ Latvian: vampīrs

→ Lithuanian: vampyras

→ Luxembourgish: Vampir

→ Norwegian: vampyr

→ Swedish: vampyr

→ West Frisian: fampier

→ Yiddish: וואַמפּיר (vampir)


sárkány

sárkányok (plural)
sárkány (nominative singular)
sárkányok (nominative plural)
sárkányt (accusative singular)
sárkányokat (accusative plural)
sárkánynak (dative singular)
sárkányoknak (dative plural)
sárkánnyal (instrumental singular)
sárkányokkal (instrumental plural)
sárkányért (causal-final singular)
sárkányokért (causal-final plural)
sárkánnyá (singular translative)
sárkányokká (plural translative)
sárkányig (singular terminative)
sárkányokig (plural terminative)
sárkányként (essive-formal singular)
sárkányokként (essive-formal plural)
sárkányban (inessive singular)
sárkányokban (inessive plural)
sárkányon (singular superessive)
sárkányokon (plural superessive)
sárkánynál (adessive singular)
sárkányoknál (adessive plural)
sárkányba (illative singular)
sárkányokba (illative plural)
sárkányra (singular sublative)
sárkányokra (plural sublative)
sárkányhoz (allative singular)
sárkányokhoz (allative plural)
sárkányból (elative singular)
sárkányokból (elative plural)
sárkányról (delative singular)
sárkányokról (delative plural)
sárkánytól (ablative singular)
sárkányoktól (ablative plural)
sárkányé (possessed-single possessive predicative singular)
sárkányoké (plural possessed-single possessive predicative)
sárkányéi (possessed-single possessive predicative singular)
sárkányokéi (plural possessed-single possessive predicative)
sárkányom (first-person possessed-single possessive singular)
sárkányaim (first-person possessed-many possessive singular)
sárkányod (possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
sárkányaid (possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
sárkánya (possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
sárkányai (possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
sárkányunk (first-person plural possessed-single possessive)
sárkányaink (first-person plural possessed-many possessive)
sárkányotok (plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
sárkányaitok (plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
sárkányuk (plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
sárkányaik (plural possessed-many possessive third-person)

→ Pannonian Rusyn: шаркань (šarkanʹ)

From a Turkic language, ultimately from Proto-Turkic *siāŕgan (“carp; snake, dragon”). Compare Cuman sazagan, Kipchak sazağan (“dragon”), Turkish sazan.

der

kite (a lightweight toy carried on the wind and controlled from the ground by a line)

virago, termagant, vixen, shrew, Xanthippe (a malicious, quarrelsome woman)


δράκων

grc-noun

δρᾰ́κων • (drákōn) m (genitive δρᾰ́κοντος); third declension

δρᾰ́κων (canonical)
drákōn (romanization)
δρᾰ́κοντος (genitive)
ὁ δρᾰ́κων (nominative singular)
τὼ δρᾰ́κοντε (dual nominative)
οἱ δρᾰ́κοντες (nominative plural)
τοῦ δρᾰ́κοντος (genitive singular)
τοῖν δρᾰκόντοιν (dual genitive)
τῶν δρᾰκόντων (genitive plural)
τῷ δρᾰ́κοντῐ (dative singular)
τοῖν δρᾰκόντοιν (dative dual)
τοῖς δρᾰ́κουσῐ (dative plural)
δρᾰ́κουσῐν (dative plural)
toîs drákousi (dative plural)
toîs drákousin (dative plural)
τὸν δρᾰ́κοντᾰ (accusative singular)
τὼ δρᾰ́κοντε (accusative dual)
τοὺς δρᾰ́κοντᾰς (accusative plural)
δρᾰ́κον (singular vocative)
δρᾰ́κοντε (dual vocative)
δρᾰ́κοντες (plural vocative)

Byzantine Greek: δράκος (drákos)

desc

Greek: δράκος (drákos), δράκοντας (drákontas)

Mariupol Greek: дъра́кус (ðrákus)

→ Classical Syriac: ܕܪܩܘܢܐ

→ Armenian: դրակոն (drakon)

→ Belarusian: дракон (drakón)

→ Bulgarian: дракон (drakon)

→ Coptic: ⲇⲣⲁⲕⲱⲛ (drakōn)

→ Georgian: დრაკონი (draḳoni)

→ Hebrew: דרקון (drakon)

→ Latin: dracō (see there for further descendants)

→ Macedonian: дракон (drakon)

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→ Russian: дракон (drakon), драко́нъ (drakón) — Pre-reform orthography (1918)
→ Bashkir: дракон (drakon)

→ Ukrainian: дракон (drakon)

Traditionally related to δέρκομαι (dérkomai, “to see”) with the literal meaning of “one who stares” or, alternatively, “sharp-sighted”.
With stem drakont- for drakon- (influenced by the present participle), as revealed by the feminine δράκαινα (drákaina).


şeytan

şeytan (nominative singular)
şeytanlar (nominative plural)
şeytannıñ (genitive singular)
şeytanlarnıñ (genitive plural)
şeytanğa (dative singular)
şeytanlarğa (dative plural)
şeytannı (accusative singular)
şeytanlarnı (accusative plural)
şeytanda (locative singular)
şeytanlarda (locative plural)
şeytandan (ablative singular)
şeytanlardan (ablative plural)

der

Arabic شَيْطَان (šayṭān)


şeytan

head

şeytan (definite accusative şeytanı, plural şeytanlar)

şeytanı (accusative definite)
şeytanlar (plural)
şeytan (nominative singular)
şeytanlar (nominative plural)
şeytanı (accusative definite singular)
şeytanları (accusative definite plural)
şeytana (dative singular)
şeytanlara (dative plural)
şeytanda (locative singular)
şeytanlarda (locative plural)
şeytandan (ablative singular)
şeytanlardan (ablative plural)
şeytanın (genitive singular)
şeytanların (genitive plural)

[ʃe̞jˈt̟ʰɑn̟]

From Ottoman Turkish شیطان (şeytan), from Arabic شَيْطَان (šayṭān).

der

Arabic شَيْطَان (šayṭān)


luck dragon

A calque of the German term Glücksdrache, coined in The Neverending Story (1983) (translated by Ralph Manheim from the original Die Unendliche Geschichte (1979) by Michael Ende).

2006 July 7, Douglas Sarine (guest), “'Pirates' Any Good? Ask a Ninja, If You Dare”, All Things Considered, National Public Radio
Like literally, the last line of the movie is a new plotline. It's a never-ending story, but with no luckdragon.

“I am Princess Tessiyon Windmere and captain of my ship I am to go back to. And yourself?” said she. / “I am Zandor, I am a luck dragon,” he replied. / “You sure are indeed. It was my luck that saved me, you came.”

2008, Kyann Zorain, The Stones of the Hidden Power: The Fight for Freedom, page 90:

His first magical creature was a bonsai tiger called Jack (of the tabby variety), followed by a small luck dragon named Daisy. Sometimes people mistook Daisy for a spaniel, but you could tell she was a luck dragon because she had big floppy ears.

2009 March 1, Sam Bowring, The Zoo of Magical and Mythological Creatures, Macmillan, preface:

I liked that there was no bright light but the perpetual clouds and drizzle were depressing. It was like The Nothing was coming. Too bad I couldn’t ride a luck dragon out of this place.

2010 March 15, Paul Y. Csige, The Symphony of Leif, CsiMec Incorporated, page 127

A fictitious flying dragon with a giant, elongated, wingless body and commonly a canine head, unfailing in its serendipity.


jednorožec

jednorožec (nominative singular)
jednorožci (nominative plural)
jednorožce (genitive singular)
jednorožců (genitive plural)
jednorožcovi (dative singular)
jednorožci (dative singular)
jednorožcům (dative plural)
jednorožce (accusative singular)
jednorožce (accusative plural)
jednorožče (singular vocative)
jednorožci (plural vocative)
jednorožcovi (locative singular)
jednorožci (locative singular)
jednorožcích (locative plural)
jednorožcem (instrumental singular)
jednorožci (instrumental plural)

From jedno- (“one”) + roh (“horn”) + -ec. Compare Slovak jednorožec, Polish jednorożec.


jednorožec

sk-noun

jednorožec m animal (genitive singular jednorožca, nominative plural jednorožce, genitive plural jednorožcov, declension pattern of stroj)

jednorožca (genitive singular)
jednorožce (nominative plural)
jednorožcov (genitive plural)
stroj (declension-pattern-of)
jednorožec (nominative singular)
jednorožce (nominative plural)
jednorožca (genitive singular)
jednorožcov (genitive plural)
jednorožcu (dative singular)
jednorožcom (dative plural)
jednorožec (accusative singular)
jednorožce (accusative plural)
jednorožci (locative singular)
jednorožcoch (locative plural)
jednorožcom (instrumental singular)
jednorožcami (instrumental plural)


לויתן

head

לויתן • (transliteration needed) m (uncountable)


dragón

From Old Galician-Portuguese dragon, from Latin dracō, dracōnem, from Ancient Greek δράκων (drákōn, “serpent, dragon”).

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c1350, Kevin M. Parker (ed.), Historia Troyana. Santiago: Instituto "Padre Sarmiento", page 26

Jason meant to put the dragon to sleep with words and herbs

Coydaua Jaason de adormẽtar o dragõ cõ palauras et cõ heruas.


dragón

es-noun

dragón m (plural dragones, feminine dragona, feminine plural dragonas)

dragones (plural)
dragona (feminine)
dragonas (feminine plural)

→ Tagalog: dragon

→ Waray-Waray: dragon

Inherited from Old Spanish dragon, from Latin dracōnem (accusative form), from Ancient Greek δράκων (drákōn, “serpent, dragon”). Doublet of drago, from the Latin nominative dracō.


κένταυρος

head

κένταυρος • (kéntavros) m (plural κένταυροι)

kéntavros (romanization)
κένταυροι (plural)
κένταυρος (nominative singular)
κένταυροι (nominative plural)
κένταυρου (genitive singular)
κενταύρου (genitive singular)
κένταυρων (genitive plural)
κενταύρων (genitive plural)
κένταυρο (accusative singular)
κένταυρους (accusative plural)
κενταύρους (accusative plural)
κένταυρε (singular vocative)
κένταυροι (plural vocative)
Second forms are formal.

From Ancient Greek κένταυρος (kéntauros).

Ο Φιρένζε ήταν κένταυρος στη σειρά «Χάρι Πότερ».
O Firénze ítan kéntavros sti seirá «Chári Póter».
Firenze was a centaur in the Harry Potter series.

(Greek mythology, folklore) centaur (mythical beast that is half man, half horse)


obr

obryně (feminine)
obr (nominative singular)
obři (nominative plural)
obrové (nominative plural)
obra (genitive singular)
obrů (genitive plural)
obrovi (dative singular)
obru (dative singular)
obrům (dative plural)
obra (accusative singular)
obry (accusative plural)
obře (singular vocative)
obři (plural vocative)
obrové (plural vocative)
obrovi (locative singular)
obru (locative singular)
obrech (locative plural)
obrem (instrumental singular)
obry (instrumental plural)

→ Silesian: ober

Usually considered to be connected with the name of Pannonian Avars (compare Slovene Ober and Old Church Slavonic plural obri).


דרקון

he-proper noun

דַּרְקוֹן • (darkón) m

דַּרְקוֹן (canonical)
darkón (romanization)

דַּרְכּוֹן (darkón)

Darkon, the name of a minor biblical figure mentioned in Ezra 2:56 and again in Nehemiah 7:58.


mulo

Borrowed from Romani mulo (“dead (man)”).


fenix

fēnix (canonical masculine)
fēnix (nominative singular)
fēnixas (nominative plural)
fēnix (accusative singular)
fēnixas (accusative plural)
fēnixes (genitive singular)
fēnixa (genitive plural)
fēnixe (dative singular)
fēnixum (dative plural)

English: phoenix

From Latin phoenīx, from Ancient Greek φοῖνιξ (phoînix), from Egyptian bnw (boinu, “grey heron”).


fenix

fenicși (plural)
fenix (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
un fenix (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
fenixul (accusative definite nominative singular)
fenicși (accusative indefinite nominative plural)
niște fenicși (accusative indefinite nominative plural)
fenicșii (accusative definite nominative plural)
fenix (dative genitive indefinite singular)
unui fenix (dative genitive indefinite singular)
fenixului (dative definite genitive singular)
fenicși (dative genitive indefinite plural)
unor fenicși (dative genitive indefinite plural)
fenicșilor (dative definite genitive plural)
fenixule (singular vocative)
fenicșilor (plural vocative)

Borrowed from French phénix, from Latin phoenix, from Ancient Greek φοῖνιξ (phoînix).


tlacamazatl

tlācatl "person" + mazātl "deer; wild beast; horse"

de sagitario. ypan quicuepa centauro tlacamaçatl

17C: Chimalpahin, British and Foreign Bible Society MS 374, vol. 3, fol. 64r.

De nobiebre. Sangitarius tlacamaçatl

A centaur (in descriptions of the sign of Sagittarius).


رخ

ar-noun

رُخّ • (ruḵḵ) m

رُخّ (canonical)
ruḵḵ (romanization)
رُخّ (indefinite informal singular triptote)
الرُّخّ (definite informal singular triptote)
رُخّ (construct informal singular triptote)
رُخٌّ (indefinite nominative singular triptote)
الرُّخُّ (definite nominative singular triptote)
رُخُّ (construct nominative singular triptote)
رُخًّا (accusative indefinite singular triptote)
الرُّخَّ (accusative definite singular triptote)
رُخَّ (accusative construct singular triptote)
رُخٍّ (genitive indefinite singular triptote)
الرُّخِّ (definite genitive singular triptote)
رُخِّ (construct genitive singular triptote)

→ Catalan: roc

→ Spanish: rocho, ruc

→ English: roc


天狗

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (天狗):
* → Japanese: 天狗(てんぐ) (tengu)
* → Korean: 천구(天狗) (cheon'gu)
* → Vietnamese: thiên cẩu (天狗)

/tʰi̯ɛn⁵⁵ koʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/tʰiːn⁵⁵ kɐu̯³⁵/

/tʰiɛn⁴⁴⁻²² kau⁵³/

/tʰiɛn⁴⁴⁻²² kau⁵³/

/tʰiɛn⁴⁴⁻³³ kau⁵³/

/tʰiɛn⁴⁴⁻³³ kau⁴¹/

/tʰi̯ɛn⁵⁵ koʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/tʰiːn⁵⁵ kɐu̯³⁵/

/tʰiɛn⁴⁴⁻²² kau⁵³/

/tʰiɛn⁴⁴⁻²² kau⁵³/

/tʰiɛn⁴⁴⁻³³ kau⁵³/

/tʰiɛn⁴⁴⁻³³ kau⁴¹/

(Japanese mythology, Shinto, folklore) tengu


天狗

desc

→ Chinese: 天狗 (tiāngǒu) (reborrowed for the Japanese sense)

→ English: tengu

→ French: tengu

→ Korean: 텐구 (ten'gu)

→ Russian: тэ́нгу (tɛ́ngu)

Nihon Shoki
Shugendō
Tengu
Tiangou
ja:天狗

From Middle Chinese 天狗 (MC then kuwX, “heaven + dog”). First appears in the Nihon Shoki (720 CE).
The Chinese version of tengu (Tiangou) was originally more of a dog-like spirit or falling star. As the term and idea were imported into Japanese, the character became associated with 修験道 (“Shugendō, a kind of syncretism of Buddhist and native Japanese elements”), and the Japanese tengu changed to resemble either a long-nosed 山伏 (yamabushi, “mountain monk”, a practitioner of Shugendō) with bright-red skin, or a crow.

天狗蝙蝠: Murina hilgendorfi

天狗蝙蝠 てんぐこうもり

天狗星

a kind of shooting star, one that includes a loud sound and a bright light

a place on a tree where many small branch grow

a microbial infection of cherry and other trees that causes a cluster of many small branch and knot

1999 September 23, “カラス天(てん)狗(ぐ) [Crow Tengu]”, in Vol.5, Konami:

An omniscient tengu. They say it uses divine power.

様々なことを知っている天狗。神通力が使えるという。

Samazama na koto o shitte iru tengu. Jintsūriki ga tsukaeru to iu.

(Japanese mythology, Shinto, folklore) a tengu, a mythical Japanese creature, typically birdlike and having a long nose


nahuelito

(in Argentina, cryptozoology, mythology) A large aquatic creature, similar to the Loch Ness monster, which supposedly lives in Nahuel Huapi Lake, Argentina.


amaru

A double-headed serpent in Inca and other Andean mythology.


trow

From Swedish or Norwegian troll. Doublet of troll, a later learned borrowing.

The Trows are of a diminutive stature, and they are usually dressed in gay green garments.

1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 261:


geni

Learned borrowing from Latin genius. Doublet of giny, a popular development.

(mythology, religion) spirit (supernatural being)

genius (someone with extraordinary intelligence)


Pegaso

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Πήγασος (Pḗgasos).


Pégaso

Borrowed from Latin Pēgasus, from Ancient Greek Πήγασος (Pḗgasos).

(Greek mythology) Pegasus (mythical winged horse)


hipogrifo

(mythology, folklore, fantasy) hippogriff


Atlântida

(Greek mythology, fantasy) Atlantis (a legendary city sunken in an unknown location)


přízrak

přízrak (nominative singular)
přízraky (nominative plural)
přízraku (genitive singular)
přízraků (genitive plural)
přízraku (dative singular)
přízrakům (dative plural)
přízrak (accusative singular)
přízraky (accusative plural)
přízraku (singular vocative)
přízraky (plural vocative)
přízraku (locative singular)
přízracích (locative plural)
přízrakem (instrumental singular)
přízraky (instrumental plural)


unicorne

English: unicorn

Scots: unicorn

From Anglo-Norman unicorne, from Latin ūnicornis.

Any one-horned beast (e.g. a rhinoceros)


kelpie

The dog breed derives from the name shared by the first two breeding bitches (dam and pup), which name derives from the mythological spirit.

He was a boy in form, and an antediluvian in feature. Some thought he was a mule, between a Jew and an ape; some a wizard, some a kelpie, or a fairy, but most of all, that he was really and truly a Brownie.

1828, James Hogg, The Brownie of the Black Haggs:

(Celtic mythology) A malevolent shapeshifting spirit, most often in the form of a horse, believed to haunt the rivers and lochs of Scotland.


living dead

(fiction, usually with the) The undead; zombies, vampires, etc.


arpia

From Latin harpyia, from Ancient Greek Ἅρπυια (Hárpuia, literally “snatcher”).


ogro

pt-noun

ogro m (plural ogros, feminine ogra, feminine plural ogras)

ogros (plural)
ogra (feminine)
ogras (feminine plural)

Borrowed from French ogre, from Latin Orcus (“god of the underworld”), from Ancient Greek Ὅρκος (Hórkos).


ogro

es-noun

ogro m (plural ogros, feminine ogresa, feminine plural ogresas)

ogros (plural)
ogresa (feminine)
ogresas (feminine plural)


kirin

Borrowed from Japanese 麒(き)麟(りん) (kirin), from Middle Chinese. Doublet of qilin.

Synonym of qilin; typically used in Japanese contexts.


שד

he-noun

שֵׁד • (shed) m (plural indefinite שֵׁדִים, feminine counterpart שֵׁדָה)

שֵׁד (canonical)
shed (romanization)
שֵׁדִים (indefinite plural)
שֵׁדָה (feminine)

Root
 שׁ־ו־ד (sh-w-d)
Compare Aramaic ܫܐܕܐ (šēḏā) and Akkadian 𒀭𒆘 (šēdum, “a protective deity”), from which the former derives.

cog

A demon, devil, fiend, sprite, bogey, fantom, genie, ghost, phantom, poltergeist, shade, spirit.


שד

yi-noun

שד • (sheyd) m, plural שדים (sheydem), feminine שידה (sheyde) or שדיכע (sheydikhe)

sheyd (romanization)
sheydem (romanization)
sheyde (romanization)
sheydikhe (romanization)


gnomo

eo-head

gnomo (accusative singular gnomon, plural gnomoj, accusative plural gnomojn)

gnomon (accusative singular)
gnomoj (plural)
gnomojn (accusative plural)

Kiel estas rakontite en La Hobito, venis iun tagon al la pordo de Bilbo la granda sorĉisto, Gandalfo la Griza, kun dek tri gnomoj: fakte neniu alia ol Torino Kverkaŝildo, posteulo de reĝoj, kaj ties dek du kunuloj en ekzilo.

1995, J.R.R. Tolkien, translated by William Auld, La kunularo de l' ringoj, page 31:

As was recounted in The Hobbit, one day there came to Bilbo's door the great wizard, Gandalf the Grey, with thirteen dwarves: actually none other than Thorin Oakenshield, the successor of kings, and his twelve companions in exile.


gnomo

Borrowed from New Latin gnomus, coined by Paracelsus as a synonym for pygmaeus (“pygmy”).


巫術

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (巫術):
* → Japanese: 巫(ふ)術(じゅつ) (fujutsu)
* → Korean: 무술(巫術) (musul)

/bu²⁴⁻²² sut̚⁴/

/bu²⁴⁻²² sut̚²⁴/

/bu¹³⁻²² sut̚¹²¹/

/bu²⁴⁻¹¹ sut̚⁴/

/bu²³⁻³³ sut̚⁴/

/bu²⁴⁻²² sut̚⁴/

/bu²⁴⁻²² sut̚²⁴/

/bu¹³⁻²² sut̚¹²¹/

/bu²⁴⁻¹¹ sut̚⁴/

/bu²³⁻³³ sut̚⁴/


巫術

From Old Japanese, in turn from Middle Chinese 巫術 (MC mju zywit). Formerly read with the kan'on as bujutsu. Compare modern Min Nan reading bû-su̍t.
First attested in a portion of the Shoku Nihongi completed in 717.


νεράιδα

head

νεράιδα • (neráida) f (plural νεράιδες)

el-noun

νεράιδα • (neráida) f (plural νεράιδες)

neráida (romanization)
νεράιδες (plural)
νεράιδα (nominative singular)
νεράιδες (nominative plural)
νεράιδας (genitive singular)
νεράιδων (genitive plural)
νεράιδα (accusative singular)
νεράιδες (accusative plural)
νεράιδα (singular vocative)
νεράιδες (plural vocative)

From Byzantine Greek νεράιδα (neráida), from Ancient Greek Νηρηΐς (Nērēḯs, “Nereid”).

Οι νεράιδες ζουν στο δάσος.

(mythology, folklore) fairy, sprite (mythical being with magical powers, often depicted in modern illustrations only as small and spritely with gauze-like wings)