/ˈɛtɪn/
OriginFrom Middle English eten, etend, from Old English eoten (“giant, monster, enemy”), from Proto-West Germanic *etun, from Proto-Germanic *etunaz (“giant, glutton”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ed- (“to eat”). Cognate with Icelandic jötunn (“giant”), Swedish jätte (“giant”), Danish jætte (“giant”). Doublet of jotun.
- archaic, dialectalA giant.
“1890, Joseph Jacobs, "The Red Ettin" in English Folk and Fairy Tales, New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 3rd edition, no date, p. 138, https://archive.org/details/englishfairytale00jacouoft
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- A giant with two heads.
Formsettins(plural) · etin(alternative) · etten(alternative) · eaton(alternative) · yetun(alternative) · yotun(alternative) · yeten(alternative) · yetin(alternative) · Etene(alternative) · Yttin(alternative) · Ytene(alternative)