different between jotun vs ettin

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Old Norse j?tunn, from Proto-Germanic *etunaz (“giant”). The word is a doublet of ettin.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?j??t?n/, /?jo?t?n/, /?jo?t?n/, /?j??t?n/
• Hyphenation: jo?tun

Noun

jotun (plural jotuns or jötnar)

1. (Norse mythology) A member of a race of giants who usually stand in opposition to the Æsir and especially to Thor.
   • 1967, Ingri D'Aulaire; Edgar Parin D'aulaire, “Loki, the God of the Jotun Race”, in Norse Gods and Giants, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, ISBN 978-0-385-04908-5; republished as D'Aulaires' Book of Norse Myths, New York, N.Y.: New York Review of Books, 2005, ISBN 978-1-59017-125-7, page 42:

     When Odin was still young – before he had hanged himself on Yggdrasil and drunk from the Well of Wisdom – his eyes had fallen on a jotun named Loki.

Alternative forms

• Jotun
• jötun, Jötun
• jotunn, Jotunn
• jötunn, Jötunn

Related terms

• Jötunheimr

Translations

References

Further reading

• Jötunn on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Tounj, junto

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Old Norse j?tunn, from Proto-Germanic *etunaz. Doublet of jutul and jette.

Noun

jotun m (definite singular jotunen, indefinite plural jotnar, definite plural jotnane)

1. (Norse mythology) jotun

References

• “jotun” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

English

Alternative forms

• etin, etten, eaton, yetun, yotun, Etene, Yttin, Ytene.

Etymology

From Middle English eten, etend, from Old English eoten (“giant, monster, enemy”), from Proto-Germanic *etunaz (“giant, glutton”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?ed- (“to eat”). Cognate with Icelandic jötunn (“giant”), Swedish jätte (“giant”), Danish jætte (“giant”). Compare ent.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??t?n/
• Rhymes: -?t?n, -?t?n

Noun

ettin (plural ettins)

1. (dialectal, archaic, fantasy) A giant.
   • 1890, Joseph Jacobs, "The Red Ettin" in English Folk and Fairy Tales, New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 3rd edition, no date, p. 138, [1]

     He asked the wife if he might stay for the night, as he was tired with a long journey; and the wife said he might, but it was not a good place for him to be in, as it belonged to the Red Ettin, who was a very terrible beast, with three heads, that spared no living man it could get hold of.

2. (role-playing games) A giant with two heads.

References

Anagrams

• teint, tinet