Aegir
Americannoun
noun
"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012Etymology
Origin of Aegir
< Old Norse Ægir, akin to Old Norse ā river, water, Gothic ahwa water, Latin aqua
Example Sentences
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Sars arrived at the sub’s location Sunday and sent down AEgir 6000, an undersea drone, to analyze the vessel and capture eerie footage of the wreck.
From Fox News
Van Roy and his colleagues dubbed the new species Aegirocassis benmoulae; Aegir is the god of the sea in Norse mythology, cassis is the Latin word for helmet, and benmoulae honors the Moroccan collector who first discovered fossils of the creature.
From Science Magazine
He also believes the Lincolnshire town could have been where Sweyn's son, Canute, attempted to hold back the waves of the Aegir - a tidal bore, which takes its name from the Viking God of the Sea.
From BBC
People swam in the Aegir Bad Ricklingen pool in Hannover, northern Germany.
People swam in the Aegir Bad Ricklingen pool in Hannover, northern Germany.
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