jotun

== English == === Etymology === Learned borrowing from Old Norse jǫtunn, from Proto-Germanic *etunaz (“giant”). Doublet of ettin. === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈjəʊtʊn/, /ˈjoʊtʊn/, /ˈjoʊtən/, /ˈjɔːtʊn/ Hyphenation: jo‧tun === Noun === jotun (plural jotuns or jötnar) (Norse mythology) A member of a race of giants who usually stand in opposition to the Æsir and especially to Thor. 1967, Ingri D'Aulaire; Edgar Parin D'aulaire, “Loki, the God of the Jotun Race”, in Norse Gods and Giants, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, ISBN 978-0-385-04908-5; republished as D'Aulaires' Book of Norse Myths, New York, N.Y.: New York Review of Books, 2005, ISBN 978-1-59017-125-7, page 42: When Odin was still young – before he had hanged himself on Yggdrasil and drunk from the Well of Wisdom – his eyes had fallen on a jotun named Loki. ==== Alternative forms ==== Jotun jötun, Jötun jotunn, Jotunn jötunn, Jötunn ==== Related terms ==== Jötunheimr ==== Translations ==== === References === === Further reading === Jötunn on Wikipedia.Wikipedia === Anagrams === Tounj, junto == Norwegian Nynorsk == === Etymology === Learned borrowing from Old Norse jǫtunn, from Proto-Germanic *etunaz. Doublet of jøtul, jutul. === Noun === jotun m (definite singular jotunen, indefinite plural jotnar, definite plural jotnane) (Norse mythology) alternative form of jøtul (“jotun”)