sentences:  Among other forms of the name that are known are "Jettenbach" (1348), "Gyttenbach" (1377), "Obergittenbach" and "Niedergittenbach" (1393), "Gettenbach" (1571), "Göttenbach" (1600) and Jettenbach once again.Lying in the northern part of the current municipal area was once another village, Zeißweiler, which may have been older than Jettenbach itself.It was geographically the last place in the string of settlements with names ending in "—weiler" (German for "hamlet", or originally "homestead") at the end of the "Eßweiler Tal" (valley or dale).