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jotun

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Scrabble points
12
Words With Friends
16
Letters
5
Pronunciation
/ˈjəʊtʊn/
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/ˈjəʊtʊn/ · /ˈjoʊtʊn/ · /ˈjoʊtən/ · /ˈjɔːtʊn/

Definition of jotun

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (Norse)A member of a race of giants who usually stand in opposition to the Æsir and especially to Thor.
    “Some with disdain his reasons heard, / While others wisht the cause deferr'd. / Then Ormur spake, in speech of scorn, / Ormur, the friend of Asbiorn, / Who, daring singly to engage, / A jotun, proved his fatal rage.”
    “When Christianity became the religion of the people the trolls gradually assumed something of the role formerly played by the more powerful Jotuns.”
    “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.”
    “The world in which the æsir and jötnar play out their struggle has its own set of place-names but is essentially recognizable as Scandinavia. There are rivers, mountains, forests, oceans, storms, cold weather, fierce winters, eagles, ravens, salmon, and snakes.”
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noun

  1. (Norse)A member of a race of giants who usually stand in opposition to the Æsir and especially to Thor.
    “Some with disdain his reasons heard, / While others wisht the cause deferr'd. / Then Ormur spake, in speech of scorn, / Ormur, the friend of Asbiorn, / Who, daring singly to engage, / A jotun, proved his fatal rage.”
    “When Christianity became the religion of the people the trolls gradually assumed something of the role formerly played by the more powerful Jotuns.”
    “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.”
    “The world in which the æsir and jötnar play out their struggle has its own set of place-names but is essentially recognizable as Scandinavia. There are rivers, mountains, forests, oceans, storms, cold weather, fierce winters, eagles, ravens, salmon, and snakes.”
  2. (alt-of)Alternative letter-case form of jotun.

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Etymology

Learned borrowing from Old Norse jǫtunn, from Proto-Germanic *etunaz (“giant”). Doublet of ettin.

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