different between jotun vs jotunn

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

Noun

jotunn (plural jotunns)

1. Alternative form of jotun