Ymir

English

Etymology

From Old Norse Ymir.

Proper noun

Ymir

  1. (astronomy) A moon of Saturn.
  2. (Norse mythology) The first creature to come into being and the ancestor of all jötnar. Upon his death, the gods fashioned the world from his body.

Anagrams

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *jumjaz, from Proto-Indo-European *ym̥H-yo-,[1] from *yemH-, having an original sense of “twin”.[1][2] Related to Latin Remus (“founder of Rome, slain by his twin”) and Sanskrit यम (yáma, “twin; first man to die”).

Possibly derived from a word for “twin”, this name has been folk-etymologically connected to Old Norse ymja (“to groan, whine, wail, scream, make noise”) (cf. the homonym ymir (“hawk”, literally “groaner, screamer”)), as other names of jötnar are associated with sound-making.[3]

Proper noun

Ymir m

  1. (Norse mythology) Ymir, the ancestor of the jǫtnar.

Declension
  Declension of Ymir (strong ija-stem, indefinite singular only)
masculine singular
indefinite
nominative Ymir
accusative Ymi
dative Ymi
genitive Ymis

References
  1. Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*jumja-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 274
  2. de Vries, Jan (1977) “Ymir”, in Altnordisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Old Norse Etymological Dictionary] (in German), 2nd revised edition, Leiden: Brill
  3. Elena Gurevich (ed.) (2017) “Anonymous Þulur Jǫtna heiti I 1”, in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold, editors, Poetry from Treatises on Poetics (Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages; 3), Turnhout: Brepols, →ISBN, page 707
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