Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗name
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA major Germanic god, often described as chief of the pantheon, in his Norse form a member of the Æsir, married to Frigg and associated with knowledge, poetry and war. Wednesday refers to him by way of interpretatio germanica. · A mountain on Baffin Island, Canada.
Learned borrowing from Old Norse Óðinn (whence Icelandic Óðinn, Norwegian Nynorsk Oden), akin to Old High German Wodan and Old English Wōden. From Proto-Germanic *Wōdanaz, derived from Proto-Germanic *wōdaz (“rage, manic inspiration, furor poeticus”), from Proto-Indo-European *weh₂t- (“to be excited”). Compare Old Norse óðr (“rage”) and Dutch woede (“rage”) and woeden (“to rage”), Irish fáidh, Latin vātēs. Doublet of Woden and Wotan. Related to English wode.
Relationships mentioned by the source
These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Root classification mention*weh₂t-ine-pro
- Learned-borrowing mentionÓðinnnon
- Cognate mentionÓðinnis
- Cognate mentionOdennn
- Cognate mentionWodangoh
- Cognate mentionWōdenang
- Derivation mention*Wōdanazgem-pro
- Derivation mention*wōdazgem-pro
- Derivation mention*weh₂t-ine-pro
- Cognate mentionóðrnon
- Cognate mentionwoedenl
- Cognate mentionfáidhga
- Cognate mentionvātēsla
- Doublet mentionWodenen
- Doublet mentionWotanen
- Cognate mentionwodeen
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Raw extraction fields are retained for auditing. Their order does not establish ancestry.
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