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Etymology edit

From Old Norse Ymir.

Proper noun edit

Ymir

  1. (astronomy) A moon of Saturn.
  2. (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

  1. (Norse mythology) Ymir, the ancestor of the jǫtnar.

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References edit

  1. 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
  2. ^ de Vries, Jan (1977), “Ymir”, in Altnordisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Old Norse Etymological Dictionary] (in German), 2nd revised edition, Leiden: Brill
  3. ^ 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