Editing Jötunn (section)

===Terms and etymology===
[[File:Beowulf - eotenas.jpg|thumb|The word {{lang|ang|eotenas}} in the manuscript of ''[[Beowulf]]'']]

{{langx|non|jötunn}} and [[Old English]] {{lang|ang|eoten}} developed from the [[Proto-Germanic]] masculine noun {{lang|gem-x-proto|*etunaz}}.<ref name="OREL-86">Orel (2003:86).</ref>  [[Philology|Philologist]] [[Vladimir Orel]] says that semantic connections between {{lang|gem-x-proto|*etunaz}} with Proto-Germanic {{lang|gem-x-proto|*etanan}} ('to eat') makes a relation between the two words likely.<ref name="OREL-86"/> The words are cognate with {{Wikt-lang|en|ettin}}, an archaic word for a type of being.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.etymonline.com/word/ettin#etymonline_v_11667 |title=Ettin |work=Online Etymology Dictionary |access-date=12 May 2021 |archive-date=7 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210507015847/https://www.etymonline.com/word/ettin#etymonline_v_11667 |url-status=live }}</ref> Old Norse {{lang|non|risi}} and Old High German {{lang|goh|riso}} derive from the Proto-Germanic masculine noun {{lang|gem-x-proto|*wrisjon}}. Orel observes that the [[Old Saxon]] adjective {{lang|osx|wrisi-līk}} 'enormous' is likely also connected.<ref name="OREL-472">Orel (2003:472).</ref> Old Norse {{lang|non|þurs}}, Old English {{lang|ang|þyrs}}, and Old High German {{lang|goh|duris}} 'devil, evil spirit' derive from the Proto-Germanic masculine noun {{lang|gem-x-proto|*þur(i)saz}}, itself derived from Proto-Germanic {{lang|gem-x-proto|*þurēnan}}, which is etymologically connected to [[Sanskrit]] {{lang|sa-Latn|turá}}- 'strong, powerful, rich'.<ref name="OREL429-430">Orel (2003:429–430).</ref> Several terms are used specifically to refer to female entities that fall into this wider category, including {{lang|non|íviðja}} (plural {{Lang|non|íviðjur}}), {{lang|non|gýgr}} (plural {{Lang|non|gýgjar}}) and {{lang|non|tröllkona}} (plural {{lang|non|tröllkonur}}).{{sfn|íviðja}}{{sfn|gýgr}}{{sfn|trollkona}}

Terms for {{lang|non|jötnar}} are also found in Old Norse compound words such as {{lang|non|bergrisi}},{{sfn|bergrisi}} ("mountain-risi") and {{lang|non|hrímþurs}} ("rime-þurs", or "frost-þurs").{{sfn|hrímþurs}}

The cognates {{lang|non|jötunn}} and {{lang|ang|eoten}}, and {{lang|non|þurs}} and {{lang|ang|þyrs}} have been equated by scholars such as [[J. R. R. Tolkien]] and [[Rudolf Simek]], with the words being used to describe the being in either [[Old Norse]] or [[Old English]] respectively.{{sfn|Tolkien|2011}}{{sfn|Simek|2008|pp=107,334}}