guð
Icelandic
/kvʏːð/
noun
Definitions
- a god (of polytheistic religions)
- God (of monotheistic religions); often capitalized: Guð
Etymology
Derived from Old Norse guð (god) derived from Proto-Germanic *gudą (god, deity, invoked one) derived from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰutós (invoked, poured).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*ǵʰutós
Gloss
invoked, poured
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- godiche French
- χυτός Ancient Greek
- *ǵʰew- Proto-Indo-European
- *ǵʰewH- Proto-Indo-European
- *ǵʰutós Proto-Indo-European
- *ǵʰutós, *ǵʰutóm Proto-Indo-European
- *gudą Proto-Germanic
- gud Swedish
- Guðmundr Old Norse
- goð Old Norse
- guð Old Norse
- guð, goð Old Norse
- guðligr Old Norse
- gud Danish
- guðfræði Icelandic
- guðfræðingur Icelandic
- guðlast Icelandic
- guðlegur Icelandic
- guðleysi Icelandic
- guðleysingi Icelandic
- last Icelandic
- vín Icelandic
- vínguð Icelandic
- óguðlegur Icelandic
- god Old High German
- got Old High German
- got Middle High German
- Gott Luxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- 𐌲𐌿𐌸 Gothic
- *god gmw-pro
- got Old Dutch
- *ȷ́ʰutás Proto-Indo-Iranian
- hodváb Slovak
- god Old Frisian