jótar

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *eutaz.

Noun

jótar m pl

Jutes
- 9th c., Þjóðólfr of Hvinir, Ynglingatal, verse 5:
  […] þás árgjǫrn / Jóta dolgi
  Svía kind / of sóa skyldi.
  […] Then, when the harvest-eager / kin of the Swedes
  had to sacrifice / the enemy of the Jutes.

Declension

Declension of jótar, (strong a-stem, plural only)

masculine	plural
masculine	indefinite	definite
nominative	jótar	jótarnir
accusative	jóta	jótana
dative	jótum	jótunum
genitive	jóta	jótanna

Descendants

Icelandic: Jóti
Faroese: júti
Norwegian Nynorsk: jute
Old Danish: iutæ
- Danish: jyde
  - Norwegian Bokmål: jyde
  - → Norwegian Nynorsk: jyde
Old Swedish: iūte
- Swedish: jute (pl. jutar)

References

Jótar in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, G. T. Zoëga, Clarendon Press, 1910, at Internet Archive.

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