völva
Portuguese, noun
völva is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “völva (Old Norse prophetess)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its diaeresis, volva is a different word: “first/third-person singular present subjunctive”.
What does völva mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininevölva (Old Norse prophetess)
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- 2
third-person singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Forms of völva
- völvas plural
- volva alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to völva
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is völva in Portuguese?
völva appears about once in every 58 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).