godspel
Old English
noun
Definitions
- (Christianity) gospel
Etymology
Compound from Old English gōd (good, goodness, welfare, benefit, wealth, a good thing, gift, advantage, ability, virtue, doughtiness, property, goods) + Old English spel (message, news)derived from Latin ēvangelium derived from Ancient Greek εὐαγγέλιον (good news, good tidings, message, evangel, good message).
Origin
Ancient Greek
εὐαγγέλιον
Gloss
good news, good tidings, message, evangel, good message
Concept
Semantic Field
Basic actions and technology
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
信
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Goodwin English
- evangel English
- evangelism English
- evangelship English
- bona annuntiatio Latin
- evangelium Latin
- ēvangelium Latin
- vangelo Italian
- évangile French
- евангелие Russian
- evangelio Spanish, Castilian
- εὐαγγέλιον Ancient Greek
- ἄγγελος Ancient Greek
- *h₁es- Proto-Indo-European
- evangelium Norwegian Bokmål
- evangelho Portuguese
- *gōdaz Proto-Germanic
- *spellą Proto-Germanic
- evangelium Swedish
- 福音 Japanese
- evangelium Norwegian Nynorsk
- godleas Old English
- godlic Old English
- godnes Old English
- gōd Old English
- gōdspel Old English
- spel Old English
- ungod Old English
- ærgod Old English
- evaungel Middle English
- good Middle English
- gude Middle English
- spell Middle English
- guðspjall Old Norse
- evangelium Danish
- evangelium Czech
- إنجيل Arabic
- إنْجِيل Arabic
- إِنْجِيل Arabic
- الإنجيل Arabic
- evangeli Catalan, Valencian
- guðspjall Icelandic
- evanxeo Galician
- evangelium Faroese
- *gōd gmw-pro
- 福音 Chinese
- evanjelium Slovak
- Efangeli Alemannic German
- evangèli Occitan
- evangelija Lithuanian
- *soiscél Middle Irish
- ⲉⲩⲁⲅⲅⲉⲗⲓⲟⲛ Coptic
- אונגליון Aramaic
- ܐܘܢܓܠܝܘܢ Classical Syriac