jǫtunn

• (Rök runestone) ᛁᛆᛐᚢᚿ (iatun), iætunn, iatunn
• (Old East Norse) *iætti (byform)

From Proto-Norse *ᛖᛏᚢᚾᚨᛉ (*etunaʀ, “giant”), from Proto-Germanic *etunaz (“giant; overeater, glutton”, literally “eater”), from *etaną (“to eat”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ed- (“to eat”). Cognate with Old English eoten, English ettin.

• (12th Century Icelandic) IPA^(key): /ˈjɒ.tʊ̃nː/
• (Textbook Old Norse) IPA^(key): /ˈjɔ.tunː/

jǫtunn m (genitive jǫtuns, plural jǫtnar)

1. (Norse mythology) a jotun, ettin, 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, […]

• jǫtunbygðr (“peopled by ettins”)
• Jǫtunheimr (“Jotunheim”)
• jǫtunmóðr (“ettins's fury”)
• jǫtunuxi (“a kind of a beetle”, literally “ettin-ox”)

• 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

• Richard Cleasby; Guðbrandur Vigfússon (1874), “jǫtunn”, in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, 1st edition, Oxford: Oxford Clarendon Press, page 328
• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “jötunn”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 234; also available at the Internet Archive