jǫtunn

== Old Norse == === Alternative forms === (Rök runestone) ᛁᛆᛐᚢᚿ (iatun), iætunn, iatunn (Old East Norse) *iætti (byform) === Etymology === From Proto-Norse *ᛖᛏᚢᚾᚨᛉ (*etunaʀ, “giant”), from Proto-Germanic *etunaz (“giant; overeater, glutton”, literally “eater”), from *etaną (“to eat”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ed- (“to eat”). Cognate with Old English eoten, English ettin. === Pronunciation === (12th Century Icelandic) IPA(key): /ˈjɒ.tʊ̃nː/ (Textbook Old Norse) IPA(key): /ˈjɔ.tunː/ === Noun === jǫtunn m (genitive jǫtuns, plural jǫtnar) (Norse mythology) a jotun, ettin, giant Vǫluspá, verse 2, lines 1-2, in 1860, T. Möbius, Edda Sæmundar hins fróða: mit einem Anhang zum Theil bisher ungedruckter Gedichte. Leipzig, page 1: ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== jǫtunbygðr (“peopled by ettins”) Jǫtunheimr (“Jotunheim”) jǫtunmóðr (“ettins's fury”) jǫtunuxi (“a kind of a beetle”, literally “ettin-ox”) ==== Descendants ==== Icelandic: jötunn Faroese: jøtun → Norwegian Nynorsk: jøtun (learned) → Swedish: jotun, jötun; jote, giotte (learned) (artificially revived → again obsolete) ⇒ Swedish: (adjective) jotnisk → Danish: jøden, jøtun, jotun, jotne (learned) Norwegian Bokmål: jotun, jotne ⇒ Old East Norse: *iætti (byform) Old Swedish: iætti, iætte Swedish: jätte c or m (“giant”) → Finnish: jätti Old Danish: *iætti, *iætte Danish: jætte Norwegian Bokmål: jette → Norwegian Nynorsk: jette → English: jotun → Finnish: jotuni ⇒ Old Norse: (Northern) Norwegian: jøtul, jutul; (dialectal) jøtel, jutel → Danish: jutul Norwegian Bokmål: jutul Old Swedish: *iatul Jamtish: djutul, jutul, juttul, jottel, jåttål, jutur (“the devil; clever handy man, trixter, sly fox”) ⇒ Jamtish: jotulnta, juturnta (“may the devil take”) → Finnish: jatuli (“giant”) Old Danish: iætæn Old Swedish: iætun === Further reading === Richard Cleasby; Guðbrandur Vigfússon (1874), “jǫtunn”, in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, 1st edition, Oxford: Oxford Clarendon Press, page 328 Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “jötunn”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 234; also available at the Internet Archive