The story
- Proto-Germanic · derived from*etunaz“giant”
- Old Norse · learned borrowing fromjǫtunn
- English todayjotun
Learned borrowing from Old Norse jǫtunn, from Proto-Germanic *etunaz (“giant”). Doublet of ettin.
Words from the same roots
Proto-Germanic*etunaz all →
ettin
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.