goð
Old Norse
/ˈɡoð/
noun
Definitions
- (Norse belief) the æsir, a clan of vættir nature beings that humans invoke
- (Christianity) a god of any polytheism, understood as a false god
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Germanic *gudą (god, deity, invoked one) derived from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰutós, *ǵʰutóm (invoked).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*ǵʰutós, *ǵʰutóm
Gloss
invoked
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Godiva English
- Goody English
- Gott German
- Gottlieb German
- godiche French
- *ǵʰutós Proto-Indo-European
- *ǵʰutós, *ǵʰutóm Proto-Indo-European
- *gudą Proto-Germanic
- cofgod Old English
- gedwolgod Old English
- god Old English
- godas Old English
- godcund Old English
- godhad Old English
- godscyldig Old English
- godsibb Old English
- godwebb Old English
- godþrym Old English
- gyden Old English
- gydig Old English
- god Middle English
- guð Old Norse
- guð, goð Old Norse
- eingyðistrú Icelandic
- fjölgyðistrú Icelandic
- goð Icelandic
- goðafræði Icelandic
- skurðgoð Icelandic
- god Middle Dutch
- got Middle Dutch
- god Old High German
- got Old High German
- irmingot Old High German
- leiba Old High German
- got Middle High German
- 𐌰𐍆𐌲𐌿𐌸𐍃 Gothic
- 𐌲𐌰𐌲𐌿𐌳𐍃 Gothic
- 𐌲𐌰𐌻𐌹𐌿𐌲𐌰𐌲𐌿𐌸 Gothic
- 𐌲𐌿𐌳𐌰𐌻𐌰𐌿𐍃 Gothic
- 𐌲𐌿𐌳𐌰𐍃𐌺𐌰𐌿𐌽𐌴𐌹 Gothic
- 𐌲𐌿𐌳𐌰𐍆𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌷𐍄𐍃 Gothic
- 𐌲𐌿𐌳𐌱𐌻𐍉𐍃𐍄𐍂𐌴𐌹𐍃 Gothic
- 𐌲𐌿𐌳𐌹𐌻𐌿𐌱 Gothic
- 𐌲𐌿𐌳𐌹𐍃𐌺𐍃 Gothic
- 𐌲𐌿𐌸 Gothic
- *god gmw-pro
- *gōd gmw-pro
- got Old Dutch
- god Old Saxon
- hodváb Slovak
- God Scots
- god Western Frisian
- god Old Frisian
- God Saterland Frisian
- Gott Hunsrik
- Kot Hunsrik