Unnumbered source etymology
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Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryThe principal group of benevolent deities in the Norse pantheon, representing power and war; opponents of the Vanir.
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂ems- Proto-Indo-European *-us Proto-Indo-European *h₂émsus Proto-Germanic *ansuz Proto-Norse *ᚨᛊᚢᛉ (*asuʀ) Old Norse æsirbor. English Æsir Borrowed from Old Norse æsir (nominative plural of áss), from Proto-Germanic *ansuz (“god”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂émsus, from *h₂ems- (“to engender, beget”); cf. Old English ēse, Sanskrit असुर (ásura). Doublet of Asura and Ahura.
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