Ymir
English
Etymology
Proper noun
Ymir
- (astronomy) A moon of Saturn.
- (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 *jumijaz, 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 (yamá, “twin; first man to die”).
Possibly derived from a word for “twin”, this name has been popularly 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
Inflection
Declension of Ymir (strong ija-stem, indefinite singular only)
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*jumja-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 274
- ^ de Vries, Jan (1977) “Ymir”, in Altnordisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Old Norse Etymological Dictionary] (in German), 2nd revised edition, Leiden: Brill
- ^ Elena Gurevich (ed.) (12th century) “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, published 2017, →ISBN, page 707
Categories:
- English terms borrowed from Old Norse
- English terms derived from Old Norse
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- en:Astronomy
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- en:Moons of Saturn
- Old Norse terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Old Norse lemmas
- Old Norse proper nouns
- Old Norse masculine nouns
- non:Norse mythology
- Old Norse masculine ija-stem nouns