Ymir
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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 Proto-Germanic *jumjaz, from Proto-Indo-European *ym̥H-yo-, from *yemH-, having an original sense of “twin”. 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.
Proper noun
Ymir m
Declension
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.) (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