jätte

• (obsolete forms) jette, gätte, gette, giätte, giette, hiätte, hiette, hjette

From, iætti, from Old Norse *iætti, byform of Old Norse jǫtunn, from Proto-Germanic *etunaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ed-.

Doublet of (dialectal) jutul, juttul, jottel (“the devil; clever handy man, trixter, sly fox”); from Old Swedish *iatul, alternative form of iætun (“giant; jotun”); also borrowed into Finnish jatuli (“giant”).

jätte c

1. (mythology) jotun; a mythical humanoid creature, originally human-sized but later associated with great size
2. giant

• jätte-

• → Finnish: jätti
  • ⇒ Finnish: jättiläinen

• jätte in Svensk ordbok.