See also: Appendix:Variations of "god"
Contents
- 1 Icelandic
- 1.1 Etymology
- 1.2 Pronunciation
- 1.3 Noun
- 1.3.1 Declension
- 1.3.2 Derived terms
- 2 Old Norse
- 2.1 Etymology
- 2.2 Pronunciation
- 2.3 Noun
- 2.3.1 Declension
- 2.3.2 Derived terms
- 2.3.3 Related terms
- 2.3.4 Descendants
- 2.4 References
Icelandic
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Etymology
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From Old Norse goð.
Pronunciation
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Noun
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goðn (genitive singular goðs, nominative plural goð)
Declension
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declension of goð
Derived terms
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Old Norse
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Etymology
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From Proto-Germanic *gudą (“invoked one”). Cognate with Old English god, Old Frisian god, Old Saxon god, Old Dutch got, Old High German got, Gothic 𐌲𐌿𐌸 (guþ).
Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰutóm (“invoked”).
Pronunciation
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Noun
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goðn (genitive goðs, plural goð)
- (Germanic paganism) a god, at times more specifically a member of the æsir
- (Christianity, especially in compounds) a god of any polytheism, understood as a false god
- Clemens saga 2, in 1874, C. R. Unger, Postola sögur: Legendariske fortællinger om apostlernes liv. Copenhagen, page 127:
- […] i musteri solar goþs, es Apollo heiter […]
- […] in the temple of the solar god, as Apollo is called […]
- Clemens saga 2, in 1874, C. R. Unger, Postola sögur: Legendariske fortællinger om apostlernes liv. Copenhagen, page 127:
Declension
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Declension of goð (strong a-stem)
Derived terms
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Terms derived from goð
- draumagoð (“Morpheus”)
- goðablót (“sacrifice to the gods”)
- goðagremi (“gods' wrath for oath-breaking”)
- goðaheill (“gods' favor”)
- goðahús (“temple”)
- goðareiði (“gods' wrath for oath-breaking”)
- goðastallar (“temple-altar”)
- goðastúka (“sanctuary”)
- goðatala (“tale of gods”)
- goðborinn (“god-born”)
- goðbrúðr (“Skadi”)
- goðdómr (“godhead”)
- goðgá (“blasphemy”)
- goðkonungr (“king”)
- goðkunnigr, goðkyndr (“of the kith of gods”)
- goðheimr (“home of the gods”)
- goðmálugr (“skilled in the lore of the gods”)
- goðmǫgn (“divine powers, deities”)
- goðorð (“priest's authority”)
- goðorðslauss (“without a priest's authority”)
- goðorðsmaðr (“owner of a priest's authority”)
- goðorðsmál (“action concerning priest's authority”)
- goðorðstilkall (“claim to a priest's authority”)
- goðrifi (“scorn of the gods”)
- goðvefr (“velvet, costly weaving”)
- goðvegr (“way of the gods”)
- goðrækr (“godforsaken, wicked”)
- goðvargr (“one who commits sacrilege in a temple”)
- orrostugoð (“Mars”)
- sólargoð (“Apollo”)
Related terms
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Descendants
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- Icelandic: goðn
References
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- goð in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, R. Cleasby and G. Vigfússon, Clarendon Press, 1874, at Internet Archive.
- goð in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, G. T. Zoëga, Clarendon Press, 1910, at Internet Archive.
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