jǫtunn

See also: jotunn, Jotunn, jötunn, and Jötunn

Old Norse

Etymology

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From Proto-Germanic *etunaz (“glutton, giant”). Cognate with Old English ēoten.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈjɒˌtunː/

Noun

jǫtunn m (genitive jǫtuns, plural jǫtnar)

1. (Norse mythology) a jotun, 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:

     Ek man jötna / ár um borna, […]

     I remember giants / born long ago, […]

Declension

  Declension of jǫtunn (strong a-stem)

masculine	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	jǫtunn	jǫtunninn	jǫtnar	jǫtnarnir
accusative	jǫtun	jǫtuninn	jǫtna	jǫtnana
dative	jǫtni	jǫtninum	jǫtnum	jǫtnunum
genitive	jǫtuns	jǫtunsins	jǫtna	jǫtnanna

Derived terms

Terms derived from jǫtunn

• jǫtunbygðr (“peopled by giants”)
• Jǫtunheimr (“Jotunheim”)

• jǫtunmóðr (“giant's fury”)
• jǫtunuxi (“a kind of a beetle”)

Descendants

• Danish: jætte c (Old Danish iætæn m)
• English: jotun
• Faroese: jøtun m
• Icelandic: jötunn m

• Norwegian Bokmål: jotun m
• Norwegian Nynorsk: jotun m
• Swedish: jätte c (Old Swedish iætun, iætti m)

References

• 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.