Ymir
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Ymir
- (astronomy) A moon of Saturn.
- (Norse mythology) The first creature to come into being and the ancestor of all jötnar. Upon his death, the gods fashioned the world from his body.
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Old Norse edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Germanic *jumjaz, from Proto-Indo-European *ym̥H-yo-,[1] from *yemH-, having an original sense of “twin”.[1][2] Related to Latin Remus (“founder of Rome, slain by his twin”) and Sanskrit यम (yáma, “twin; first man to die”).
Possibly derived from a word for “twin”, this name has been folk-etymologically connected to Old Norse ymja (“to groan, whine, wail, scream, make noise”) (cf. the homonym ymir (“hawk”, literally “groaner, screamer”)), as other names of jötnar are associated with sound-making.[3]
Proper noun edit
Ymir m
Declension edit
Declension of Ymir (strong ija-stem, indefinite singular only)
References edit
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Kroonen, Guus (2013), “*jumja-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 274
- ^ de Vries, Jan (1977), “Ymir”, in Altnordisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Old Norse Etymological Dictionary] (in German), 2nd revised edition, Leiden: Brill
- ^ Elena Gurevich (ed.) (2017), “Anonymous Þulur Jǫtna heiti I 1”, in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold, editors, Poetry from Treatises on Poetics (Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages; 3), Turnhout: Brepols, →ISBN, page 707