jǫtunn
Old Norse edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Germanic *etunaz (“glutton, giant”). Cognate with Old English eoten.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
jǫtunn m (genitive jǫtuns, plural jǫtnar)
Declension edit
Declension of jǫtunn (strong a-stem)
Derived terms edit
- jǫtunbygðr (“peopled by ettins”)
- Jǫtunheimr (“Jotunheim”)
- jǫtunmóðr (“ettins's fury”)
- jǫtunuxi (“a kind of a beetle”, literally “ettin-ox”)
Descendants edit
- Icelandic: jötunn m
- Faroese: jøtun m
- Norwegian Nynorsk: jotun, jøtul m
- Norwegian Bokmål: jotun, jutul m
- Old Danish: iætæn m
- Danish: jætte c
- Old Swedish: iætun, iætti m
- Swedish: jätte c or m
- → English: jotun (learned)
References edit
- jǫtunn in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, R. Cleasby and G. Vigfússon, Clarendon Press, 1874, at Internet Archive.
- jǫtunn in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, G. T. Zoëga, Clarendon Press, 1910, at Internet Archive.