wishmay|ˈwɪʃmeɪ| [transl.ON.óskmær, f.ósk wish (see wish v.) + mær maiden, may n.1] A Valkyrie. 1863W. K. Kelly Curios. Indo-Europ. Tradit. 216 The Wishmays or Valkyries.1889R. B. Anderson tr.Rydberg's Teut.Mythol. 156 A giantess who had been adopted in Asgard as Odin's ‘wish-may’.