Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/etunaz

This Proto-Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Germanic

Etymology

From *etaną (“to eat”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ed- (“to eat”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈe.tu.nɑz/

Noun

*etunaz m

an eater
a giant

Inflection

Declension of *etunaz (masculine a-stem)
	singular	plural
nominative	*etunaz	etunōz, etunōs
vocative	*etun	etunōz, etunōs
accusative	*etuną	*etunanz
genitive	etunas, etunis	*etunǫ̂
dative	*etunai	*etunamaz
instrumental	*etunō	*etunamiz

Synonyms

*risiz

Descendants

Proto-West Germanic: *anti
- Old English: ent
  - → English: ent (learned)
- Old Saxon: ent
- Old High German: *enz (found in Enzi-; Anzo, Enzo)
Proto-West Germanic: *etun
- Old English: eoten, eten
  - Middle English: eten, eotend, eatant, yoten, geten
    - English: etten, ettin, eaton
    - Scots: etin, etyn, eattin, yetin
- Old Saxon: *etun, *etinna
  - Middle Low German: eteninne
Old Norse: jǫtunn
- Icelandic: jötunn
- Faroese: jøtun
- Norwegian Nynorsk: jøtul, jutul
- Norwegian Bokmål: jutul
- Old Swedish: iætun, iætte
  - Swedish: jätte
    - → Finnish: jätti
  - → Finnish: jatuli
- Old Danish: iætæn
  - Danish: jætte
- → Norwegian Nynorsk: jotun, jøtun (artificially revived)
- → Norwegian Bokmål: jotun (artificially revived)
- → English: jotun
- → Finnish: jotuni
→? Proto-Finnic: *etana (see there for further descendants)