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Asgardian

5 9.4
A being from Asgard with great strength and long life
  • noun
  • /ˌæzˈɡɑːrdiən/
  • Literature
: asgardiano
  • Our crew is made up of Asgardian families.
  • one Asgardian

He fights against the the Asgardians, he fights against the Picts, he fights against all these these people and of course fights against apes, things like that too.

Examples

Surface Forms

Asgardian singular
Asgardians plural

Morphology

Asgardian = Asgard (transparent) = Asgard + ian

Standard formation: the suffix '-ian' creates a noun meaning 'an inhabitant or person from Asgard', so the relation is directly recoverable from the base.

Etymology

Asgardian comes from the Norse place name Asgard, a name made of parts meaning 'god' and 'enclosure' and similar to the English word garden or 'yard'. So an Asgardian is 'someone from Asgard', a god or inhabitant often shown as very strong or living a long time.