Niflheim

name

Etymology

From Old Norse Niflheimr (literally “world of mist”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *nibilaz (“dark, misty”), from *nebulaz (“fog, mist, darkness”) + *haimaz (“home, house, village”).

derived from *nibilaz✻
borrowed from Niflheimr

Definitions

In Germanic and Norse cosmology, the Norse underworld, location of the domain Hel and of…
In Germanic and Norse cosmology, the Norse underworld, location of the domain Hel and of the realm of Hel, the goddess of the dead.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for Niflheim. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA