jotun; a mythical humanoid creature, originally human-sized but later associated with great size · giant
çekim: çoğul jättar · tamlayan jättes
köken: From, iætti, from Old Norse *iætti, byform of Old Norse jǫtunn, from Proto-Germanic *etunaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ed-. Doublet of (dialectal) jutul, juttul, jottel (“the devil; clever handy man, trixter, sly fox”); from Old Swedish *iatul, alternative form of iætun (“giant; jotun”); also borrowed into Finnish jatuli (“giant”).
köken: From Old Danish iæthtæ, arisen by rebracketing from iætæn (with the ending -n interpreted as a suffixed definite article), from Old Norse jǫtunn, from Proto-Germanic *etunaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ed-.