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A member of a race of folkloric beings from Orkney and Shetland; cognate to the Scandinavian troll.
“hidden people” (Faroese huldufólk, Norwegian huldrefolk), subterraneans (Norwegian underjordiske, Swedish underjordiska, Gutnish di sma undar jordi), fairies, “troll-folk”, and thereof (Swedish oknytt)
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Usage: Orkney, Shetland, countable, dated, uncountable
Topics: arts, folklore, history, human-sciences, literature, media, mysticism, mythology, philosophy, publishing, sciences
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A member of a race of folkloric beings from Orkney and Shetland; cognate to the Scandinavian troll.
ghost; cognate to Scandinavian folklore of gnomes, wights, trolls, etc, being supernatural ghosts
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Orkney, Shetland, countable, dated, uncountable
Topics: arts, folklore, history, human-sciences, literature, media, mysticism, mythology, philosophy, publishing, sciences
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A member of a race of folkloric beings from Orkney and Shetland; cognate to the Scandinavian troll.
“The devil”, cognate to Scanian dråe (“devil”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Orkney, Shetland, countable, dated, uncountable
Topics: arts, folklore, history, human-sciences, literature, media, mysticism, mythology, philosophy, publishing, sciences
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A member of a fictional race of dark elves in various fantasy settings, such as Dungeons & Dragons.
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Usage: countable
Qualifier: fantasy roleplaying games
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A fictional constructed language spoken by the Drow.
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Usage: uncountable
Qualifier: fantasy roleplaying games
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From Shetlandic and Orcadian Scots drow, from Norn *drou, *drau (compare 18th c. Norwegian drau, modern drov, drauv), alternatively *drog, from Old Norse draugr (“malevolent revenant”); along the variation trow, intermixed with Norn troll, from Old Norse trǫll (“troll, malevolent supernatural being”), a partial synonym to draugr. L-vocalisation occurred in the early 15th century in Middle Scots, so trolly, knolls probably became *trowie, knowes around this time.
Across languages
Translations
6 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Finnish:
drow
— fictional dark elf
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Finnish:
musta haltia
— fictional dark elf
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French:
drow
— fictional dark elf
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Hungarian:
sötéttünde
— fictional dark elf
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Marathi:
ड्राउ
(ḍrāu)
— fictional dark elf
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Marathi:
ड्राउ
(ḍrāu)
— Drow language
