eoten
Old English
noun
Definitions
- giant, monster
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Germanic *etunaz (giant, glutton).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*etunaz
Gloss
giant, glutton
Concept
Semantic Field
Food and drink
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- eat English
- ettin English
- jotun English
- jotuni Finnish
- jätti Finnish
- ётун Russian
- *h₁ed- Proto-Indo-European
- *etunaz Proto-Germanic
- jätte Swedish
- etan Old English
- eten Middle English
- Jǫtunheimr Old Norse
- jǫtunn Old Norse
- jætte Danish
- jötunn Icelandic
- jøtun Faroese
- eteninne Middle Low German
- *iatul Old Swedish
- iætun Old Swedish
- getu Westrobothnian