Unnumbered source etymology · variant 1/2
Original entry ↗name
Alternative letter-case form of God.
verb
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryTo idolize. · To deify.
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰew- Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰutós? Proto-Germanic *gudą Proto-West Germanic *god Old English god Middle English god English god Inherited from Middle English god, from Old English god, originally neuter, then changed to masculine to reflect the change in religion to Christianity, from Proto-West Germanic *god n, from Proto-Germanic *gudą; see there for further origin. Cognates Cognate with Scots God (“God”), Yola God, Gud (“God”), gud (“god”), Saterland Frisian God (“God”), West Frisian God (“God”), god (“deity, god”), Alemannic German, Cimbrian, German, Luxembourgish and Mòcheno Gott (“God”), Central Franconian Jott (“God”), Dutch god (“deity, god”), Limburgish Gód (“God”), gód (“god”), Vilamovian Göt (“God”), Yiddish גאָט (got, “god; God”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål and Swedish gud (“god; God”), Faroese Gud (“God”), Icelandic goð (“idol, pagan god”), guð, Guð (“God”), Norwegian Nynorsk Gu, Gud (“God”), gu, gud (“god”), Gothic 𐌲𐌿𐌸 (guþ, “deity, god; God”). Not related to the word good or Persian خدا (xodâ, “god”).
Relationships mentioned by the source
These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Root classification mention*ǵʰew-ine-pro
- Inherited-form mentiongodenm
- Inherited-form mentiongodang
- Inherited-form mention*godgmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*gudągem-pro
- Cognate mentionGodsco · God
- Cognate mentionGodyol
- Cognate mentionGodstq · God
- Cognate mentionGodfy · God
- Cognate mentionGottmhn · God
- Cognate mentionJottgmw-cfr · God
- Cognate mentiongodnl · deity, god
- Cognate mentionGódli · God
- Cognate mentionGötwym · God
- Cognate mentionגאָטyi · god; God
- Cognate mentiongudsv · god; God
- Cognate mentionGudfo · God
- Cognate mentiongoðis · idol, pagan god
- Cognate mentionGunn
- Cognate mention𐌲𐌿𐌸got · deity, god; God
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