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Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/Wōdan
Proto-West Germanic
Etymology
From *Wōdanaz, from Proto-Germanic *Wōdanaz.
Proper noun
*Wōdan m
- Woden, Odin
Declension
Masculine a-stem | ||
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Singular | ||
Nominative | *Wōdan | |
Genitive | *Wōdanas | |
Singular | Plural | |
Nominative | *Wōdan | *Wōdanō, *Wōdanōs |
Accusative | *Wōdan | *Wōdanā |
Genitive | *Wōdanas | *Wōdanō |
Dative | *Wōdanē | *Wōdanum |
Instrumental | *Wōdanu | *Wōdanum |
Descendants
- Old English: Wōden, *Wēden, *Wœden
- Middle English: Woden
- → English: Woden (learned)
- → Latin: Wothen
- Old Frisian: *Wēden, *Wēda
- North Frisian: Wedke
- Old Saxon: Wōden
- Middle Low German: Wode
- Old Dutch: Wuodan, Wuadan, *Wuotan
- Middle Dutch: *Woeden, *Woen
- Dutch: Woen (likely back-formation from woensdag)
- Middle Dutch: *Woeden, *Woen
- Old High German:
- Latin: Wōtan, Wōdan, Wuotan, Uuodan
- Runic: ᚹᛟᛞᚨᚾ
- → Dutch: Wodan (learned)
- → German: Wotan, Wodan, Wuodan, Wuotan (learned)
- → English: Wotan
- → Latin: Vōdanus