In English usage, the genitive " of Æsir faith " is often used on its own to denote adherents ( both singular and plural ).

The first is -, genitive of, denoting one of the group of Norse heathen gods called.

The stem of limes, limit -, which can be seen in the genitive case, limitis, marks it as the ancestor of an entire group of important words in many languages, for example, English limit.

For a limited number of words in Russian, though, a partitive expression has its own separate formulation ; this group is generally regarded as a special type of the genitive ( also called the " second genitive ") case.

The species epithet ( sosorum ) is an acronym for " Save Our Springs " ( a preservation group ) combined with a Latin genitive plural ending.

However not all prepositions trigger prepositional case marking, and a small group of prepositions which are termed compound mark their objects with genitive case, these prepositions being historically derived from the fusion of a preposition plus a following noun which has become grammaticalised.

Thence the only governing word could be the group ' TOITESIAI ': this would then be an exception to the rule of the genitive of the themes in '- a ', which does not end in '- as ' as expected, an archaism perhaps in Dumezil's view.

Sanskrit priyā " beloved ") and was known among many northern European cultures with slight name variations over time: e. g. Friggja in Sweden, Frīg ( genitive Frīge ) in Old English, and Fricka in Richard Wagner's operatic cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen.

Females were officially known by the feminine form of their father's nomen gentile, followed by the genitive case of their father's ( husband's if married ) cognomen and an indication of order among sisters.

If the conclusions suggested under Sabini may be accepted as sound we should expect to find the Volsci speaking a language similar to that of the Ligures, whose fondness for the suffix-sco-has been noticed, and identical with that spoken by the plebeians of Rome, and that this branch of Indo-European was among those that preserved the original Indo-European Velars from the labialization that befell them in the speech of the Samnites, The language of the inscription of Velitrae offers at first sight a difficulty from this point of view, in the conversion it shows of q to p, but the ethnicon of Velitrae is Veliternus, and the people are called on the inscription itself Velestrom ( genitive plural ); so nothing prevents assuming there was a settlement of Sabines among the Volscian hills, with their language, to some extent, ( e. g., in the diphthongs and palatals ) corrupted by the speech around them, just as was the case with the Sabine language of the Iguvini, whose very name became Iguvinates, the suffix-ti-being much more frequent among the-co-tribes than among the Sabines.

Ægir is an Old Norse word meaning " terror " and the name of a destructive giant associated with the sea ; ægis is the genitive ( possessive ) form of ægir and has no direct relation to Greek aigis.

11 ) identifies Old Norse Baldr with the Old High German Baldere ( 2nd Merseburg Charm, Thuringia ), Palter ( theonym, Bavaria ), Paltar ( personal name ) and with Old English bealdor, baldor " lord, prince, king " ( used always with a genitive plural, as in gumena baldor " lord of men ", wigena baldor " lord of warriors ", et cetera ).

Old Norse Frigg ( genitive Friggjar ), Old Saxon Fri, and Old English Frig are derived from Common Germanic Frijjō.

The first element in the name Forsetlund ( Old Norse Forsetalundr ), a farm in the parish of Onsøy (' Odins island '), in eastern Norway, seems to be the genitive case of Forseti, offering evidence he was worshipped there.

For example, Old Norse poets might replace sverð, the regular word for “ sword ”, with a more abstract compound such as “ wound-hoe ” ( Egill Skallagrímsson: Höfuðlausn 8 ), or a genitive phrase such as randa íss “ ice of shields ” ( Einarr Skúlason: ‘ Øxarflokkr ’ 9 ).

Old Norse kennings take the form of a genitive phrase ( báru fákr " wave ’ s steed " = “ ship ” ( Þorbjörn hornklofi: Glymdrápa 3 )) or a compound word ( gjálfr-marr " sea-steed " = “ ship ” ( Anon.

Noting that the modifying component in Germanic compound words can take the form of a genitive or a bare root, he points to behavioural similarities between genitive determinants and the modifying element in regular Old Norse compound words, such as the fact that neither can be modified by a free-standing ( declined ) adjective.

Old Norse has the genitive or, the accusative and.

Both MacBain ( 1982 ) and Julius Pokorny ( 1959: 203 ) correlate the element with Norse böð, genitive boðvar, ‘ war ,’ and Anglo-Saxon beadu, genitive beadwe, ‘ battle ,’ suggesting that the word originally denoted ‘ battle ’ or ‘ strife .’ Julius Pokorny ( 1959: 203 ) presents the element as an extended form of the Proto-Indo-European root * bhedh-‘ pierce, dig .’ To this root Pokorny also links the Sanskrit bádhate, ‘ oppress ,’ and the Lithuanian bádas, ‘ famine ’.

Related names to Dyauṣ Pitṛ appear in the Greek as Zeus Pater ( accusative Día, genitive Diós ), in Latin as Jupiter ( from archaic Latin Iovis Pater, " Sky father "), in Slavic mythology as Div, and Germanic and Norse mythology as Tyr or Ziu.

The second element is a loan from Norse vaðil ( l ) " ford " which was borrowed as Gaelic fadhail ( genitive fadhla ).

The first element is the genitive case of the Norse male name ( nickname ) Rakki and the last element is staðir meaning " homestead " or " farm ".

The first element is the genitive case of the word eid ( Old Norse: eiđ ) and the last element is voll ( Old Norse: vǫllr ) which means " meadow " or " field ".

The first element is the genitive case of Nanni ( an old Norse male name ) and the last element is staðir which means " homestead " or " farm ".

The first element is the genitive case of the river name Etna ( Old Norse: Etn ) and the last element is dalr which means " valley " or " dale ".

The Old Norse forms of the name was just Síri ( nominative ) and Síra ( genitive ).

The first element is the genitive case of the name of the Norse god Ullin ( sideform of Ullr ).

The first element is the genitive case of the name of the lake Vegår ( the Norse form, and the meaning, of the name is uncertain ).

The first element is the genitive case of the name of the old Tveite farm ( Old Norse: Þveitar ) and the last element is strond which means " strand " or " beach ".

The first element is the genitive case of the old name of the lake Selbusjøen ( Old Norse: Seli ).

The first is ragna, the genitive plural of regin (" gods " or " ruling powers "), derived from the reconstructed Proto-Germanic term * ragenō.

Typically, that order would be noun – adjective – numeral – genitive phrase – relative clause – possessive marker – plural marker – case marker, for example / diĝir gal-gal-ĝu-ne-ra / (" god great ( reduplicated )- my-plural-dative " = " for all my great gods ").

Lokasenna relates that a large group of Æsir and elves had assembled at Ægir's court for a banquet.

Heyerdahl also points to the similarities between the word Æsir and the Azeri and Ossetian peoples of the Caucasus, between the god Odin and the Caucasian language group Udi and between the god Tyr and Turkey, and between the Vanir ( a group of Norse gods ) and the word Vannic, which was for a time in the 19th and 20th centuries the name used for the Urartian language, spoken in ancient times in the area around Lake Van.

The term Vanatru is coined after Ásatrú, implying a focus on the Vanir ( another Old Norse word for " gods ", possibly denoting another divine group ) rather than the Æsir.

The goddess Frigg asks who among the Æsir will earn " all her love and favour " by riding to Hel, the location, to try to find Baldr, and offer Hel herself a ransom.

Continuing the poem, Sif welcomes Loki and invites him to take a crystal cup filled with ancient mead, and says that among the children of the Æsir, she is singularly blameless.

Þrymr sees Loki, and asks what could be amiss among the Æsir and the Elves ; why is Loki alone in the Jötunheimr?

While Odin states that Vafþrúðnir knows all the fates of the gods, Odin asks Vafþrúðnir " from where Njörðr came to the sons of the Æsir ," that Njörðr rules over quite a lot of temples and hörgrs ( a type of Germanic altar ), and further adds that Njörðr was not raised among the Æsir.

Further into chapter 4, Odin appoints Njörðr and Freyr as priests of sacrificial offerings, and they became gods among the Æsir.

In the saga, Njörðr is described as having once wed his unnamed sister while he was still among the Vanir, and the couple produced their children Freyr and Freyja from this union, though this custom was forbidden among the Æsir.

In Norse mythology, Víðarr ( Old Norse, possibly " wide ruler ", sometimes anglicized as Vidar, Vithar, Vidarr, and Vitharr ) is a god among the Æsir associated with vengeance.

Three of the roots of the tree support it, and these three roots also extend extremely far: one " is among the Æsir, the second among the frost jötnar, and the third over Niflheim.

In the Prose Edda, Njord was introduced as " the third among the Æsir ", and among the Asynjur, Freyja is always listed second only to Frigg.

Loki is a giant with no evidence of being worshipped, and Njord is a Vanir hostage, but they are often ranked among the Æsir.

The Vanir are only attested in these Old Norse sources, unlike the Æsir, who are attested widely among all tribes of the Germanic peoples.

Gagnráðr asks Vafþrúðnir where the Van god Njörðr came from, for though he rules over many hofs and hörgrs, Njörðr was not raised among the Æsir.

However, " among the Æsir it was forbidden to marry so near a kin.

" By Odin's appointment, Njörðr and Freyr became priests over offerings of sacrifice, and they were recognized as gods among the Æsir.

Freyja was priestess at the sacrifices, and " it was she who first taught the Æsir magic as was practiced among the Vanir.

In contrast, continuing the same journal thread, Leszek P. Słupecki argues that the Vanir remained distinct from the Æsir — except for Freyja and Freyr, whom he follows Snorri in seeing as having been born after Njörðr became a hostage among the Æsir, and thus regards as Æsic — and therefore that Ragnarök " no importance for their world ".

: among the blameless Æsir race,

Gagnráðr asks Vafþrúðnir from whence the Van god Njörðr came, for though he rules over many hofs and hörgrs, Njörðr was not raised among the Æsir.

Scholars have variously proposed that Gullveig / Heiðr is the same figure as the goddess Freyja, that Gullveig's death may have been connected to corruption by way of gold among the Æsir, and / or that Gullveig's treatment by the Æsir may have led to the Æsir-Vanir War.