† ˈeten, ˈettin Obs.
Forms: 1 eoten, eten, 3 eatand(e, -ante, eotand, -end, -ind, ȝeten, 4 eten(e, -in, yhoten, 4–5 etayn(e, 6 Sc. eitin, etin, eyttyn, 7 ettin.
[OE. eoten, eten = ON. iǫtunn (Sw. jätte, Da. jette):—OTeut. *ituno-z.]
A giant.
| c 1205 Lay. 1801 Heo funden i þon londe twenti eotandes [c 1275 eatantes] stronge. Ibid. 17275 Hit hatte þere Eotinde King. c 1250 Gen. & Ex. 545 Of hem woren ðe ȝetenes borne, Miȝti men, and fiȝti. a 1300 E.E. Psalter xviii. 6 [xix. 5] He gladed als yhoten to renne his wai. c 1325 Leg. Rood (1871) 118 Quen dauid faȝt againe þat etin has he noȝt his staf for-ȝetin. c 1340 Gaw. & Gr. Knt. 723 He werrez..Boþe wyth bullez & berez, & borez oþer-quyle, & etaynez. c 1380 Wyclif Serm. Sel. Wks. II. 111 No man is an etene to fede him þus bodili of Crist. c 1440 MS. Lincoln A. 1. 17. f. 128 (Halliw.) Fy, he said, thou foule! thou etayne! Alle my knyghtes thou garte be slayne. 1528 Lyndesay Dream Ep. to King 45 Off the reid Etin [v.r. Eitin] and the gyir carlyng. 1549 Compl. Scot. 63 The taiyl of the reyde eythyn vitht the thre heydis. 1611 Beaum. & Fl. Knt. Burning Pestle i. ii, They say the King of Portugal cannot sit at his meate but the Giants and the Ettins will come and snatch it from him. |