Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/etunaz

From *etaną (“to eat”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ed- (“to eat”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈe.tu.nɑz/

*etunaz m

1. an eater
   1. overeater, glutton
2. a giant

• *risiz

• Proto-West Germanic: *anti
  • Old English: ent
    • → English: ent (learned)
  • Old Saxon: ent
  • Old High German: *enz (found in Enzi-; Anzo, Enzo)
• Proto-West Germanic: *etun
  • Old English: eoten, eten
    • Middle English: eten, eotend, eatant, yoten, geten
      • English: etten, ettin, eaton
      • Scots: etin, etyn, eattin, yetin
  • Old Saxon: *etun, *etinna
    • Middle Low German: eteninne
• Proto-Norse: *ᛖᛏᚢᚾᚨᛉ (*etunaʀ)
  • Old Norse: jǫtunn, ᛁᛆᛐᚢᚿ (iatun), iætunn, iatunn
    • Faroese: jøtun m
    • Icelandic: jötunn m
    • Norwegian Bokmål: jotun, jutul m
    • Norwegian Nynorsk: jotun, jøtul, jutul, jøtel, jutel m
    • Old Danish: iætæn m
    • Old Swedish: iætun m; *iatul
      • Swedish: (Jamtish) jutul, djutul, juttul, jottel, jåttål, jutur (“the devil; clever handy man, trixter, sly fox”)
        • ⇒ Swedish: (Jamtish) jotulnta, juturnta (“may the devil take”)
      • → Finnish: jatuli (“giant”)
    • ⇒ Old East Norse: *iætti (byform)
      • Old Danish: *iætti, *iætte m
        • Danish: jætte c
      • Old Swedish: iætti, iætte m
        • Swedish: jätte c or m (“giant”)
          • → Finnish: jätti
    • → English: jotun (learned)
    • → Finnish: jotuni (learned)
    • → Norwegian Nynorsk: jotun, jøtun (learned) (artificially revived)
    • → Norwegian Bokmål: jotun (learned) (artificially revived)
    • → Swedish: jotun, jötun; jote, giotte (learned) (artificially revived → again obsolete)
      • ⇒ Swedish: (adjective) jotnisk
  • → Proto-Samic: *jietënës (see there for further descendants)
• →? Proto-Finnic: *etana (see there for further descendants)