Ymir

English

proper noun

Definitions

(astronomy) A moon of Saturn.
(Norse mythology) The first creature to come into being in the Norse creation myth and the ancestor of all jötnar.

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Norse Ýmir, ymja (whine, make noise, scream, wail, groan) inherited from Proto-Germanic *umijaz derived from Proto-Indo-European *yemH-no- (connected, paired).

Origin

Proto-Indo-European

*yemH-no-

Gloss

connected, paired

Timeline

Distribution of cognates by language

Geogrpahic distribution of cognates

Cognates and derived terms

*yemH-no- Proto-Indo-European
*umijaz Proto-Germanic
ymja Old Norse
Ýmir Old Norse