jótar

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *eutaz.

Noun

jótar m pl

1. Jutes
   • 9th c., Þjóðólfr of Hvinir, Ynglingatal, verse 5:

     […] þás árgjǫrn / Jóta dolgi
     Svía kind / of sóa skyldi.

     […] Then, when the harvest-eager / kin of the Swedes
     had to sacrifice / the enemy of the Jutes.

Declension

  Declension of jótar, (strong a-stem, plural only)

masculine	plural
	indefinite	definite
nominative	jótar	jótarnir
accusative	jóta	jótana
dative	jótum	jótunum
genitive	jóta	jótanna

Descendants

• Icelandic: Jóti
• Faroese: júti
• Norwegian Nynorsk: jute
• Old Danish: iutæ
  • Danish: jyde
    • Norwegian Bokmål: jyde
    • → Norwegian Nynorsk: jyde
• Old Swedish: iūte
  • Swedish: jute (pl. jutar)

References

• Jótar in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, G. T. Zoëga, Clarendon Press, 1910, at Internet Archive.