Talk:God (word)

message: As usual editors neglect to look for proposed etymologies,Zacharias P Thundy cites none of the so called fringe philology connecting Gotama with Gudan, but he confirms the link to Buddha in his paper on the etymology of god.  He states that Per.khoda is cog. with God and that the Goths picked the word up during their first migration which would have been the time when Buddhist sent missionaries to Persia. The editor here is like most editors, by the time they are done homogenizing we are not left with any factual account    
Duden Etymological dictionary goes along with the notion of invoking, but suggests that god is something that can be conjured up. This would make the word cognate with Irish "guth" = voice.
Barry Morrissey 14:05, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Etymology of "god" 

message: I think it's rather ridiculous to separate a word etymology, which only appears in Germanic languages, just to go along with the trends of modern academia in large scale language-sound drift theories (like Woden & Godan), but of course, wikipedia has a 'no original research' policy so there's nothing that can be done about it. Modern academics try to say otherwise, but I rather think Goð- Woð- can be connected via the glottal 'yogh' sound, found in Germanic speaking languages like Old English which can connect the 'g' &'w' sounds. To "invoke" (the IE root of what some modern academia called God) and  to "inspire, possess" (the IE root of what some modern academia call Wod, Od) seem to be the same to me. To invoke (conjure within yourself, not to be confused with 'evoke', to conjure outside of yourself) is pretty much the same idea as being inspired or possessed. The -in, -an suffix of Odin/Wotan is simply a meaning like 'object of', or 'articulator of', sometimes just considered 'lord of'; Odin then means "source of (spiritual) inspiration", and God simply means 'spiritual inspiration'. Nagelfar 02:04, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: the "glottal 'yogh' sound, found in Germanic speaking languages" is a late development of North Sea Germanic / Low German, and you cannot invoke it for Lombardic. The *wat and *ghu roots are completely different etymologically, although anyone would of course grant you the semantic relationship of "invoke" and "inspire" as a truism. I do agree there may have been a contamination of *wodanaz and *gudan to yield godan, we do not need to postulate an actual Proto-Germanic *gudanaz, depending on when that contamination took place. That's splitting hairs. It was either wodanaz x gudan -> godanaz in 200 BC, or wodan x gud >  godan in AD 200, the result is indistinguishable. dab (𒁳) 16:57, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  "The Lombardic form of Odin, Godan, may derive from cognate Proto-Germanic *ǥuđánaz." 

message: Where does bog come from? Malick78 13:53, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: cognate to bhaga "lord, wanax". dab (𒁳) 19:56, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Slavonic

message: The section previous views is interesting, but if this encyclopedia is to be a source of what scientists agree are the most plausible theories, commonly known as the truth, then it needs to be stated that these previous views are not opinions any serious historical linguists would second today. Unless, of course, evidence can be provided to the contrary. And please, refrain from name calling, 68.38.215.42, as you did in the edit summary... --Alexlykke (talk) 10:35, 13 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Previous views 

message: What's all this nonsense concerning the illuminati and George Bush doing under the 'Proto-Germanic meaning' header?
94.215.169.38 (talk) 12:29, 27 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Proto-Germanic meaning

message: I added a 'Biolingustic Considerations' sub-section to the 'Germanic etymology' section. While I doubt that there are any mainstream literatures, including encyclopedias and omnipedias, which contain a biolinguistic analysis of the word 'god', the authoritative literatures of both the pediatric and linguistic fields of study make individual mention of each of the three sounds/sound-forms produced by newborns that together approximate this word.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by PatternOfPersona (talk • contribs) 06:18, 19 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Added Biolinguistic Considerations section

message: At present, the article includes speculation deriving various forms of the word God from various forms of the name Woden? It looks unlikely to me. First off, many Germanic languages have separate words for God and for Woden. I admit the latter isn't directly attested in Biblical Gothic, but we can compare Biblical Gothic Guþs with Biblical Gothic woþs meaning possessed. So if they come from the same root, they have diverged in proto-Germanic or common Germanic, and later sound changes are not relevant and may involve assimilation. Second, there is some controversy whether Woden was a proto-Germanic god or was a later innovation or borrowing. 71.191.233.120 (talk) 21:22, 25 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Unsourced etymological speculation

message: "The use of capitalization, as for a proper noun, has persisted to disambiguate the concept of a singular God, specifically the Christian god, from pagan deities for which lower case god has continued to be applied, mirroring the use of Latin deus".
I've rewritten this sentence, in the Capitalization section, as it's a potentially misleading explanation of why the word is sometimes written uncapitalised. It's true that capitalisation represents a distinction between the monotheistic "God" and "gods", but this is not the reason for capitalisation/non-capitalisation - it's a consequence of the rule that the capitalised form is used for names by which a god is known (including 'God'). See here; Capitalization #Nouns. Obscurasky (talk) 18:57, 18 April 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Capitalization 

message: Can we merge Jeús (in pt) with God (word)?
Decolonizing it would be Yudah (Judah/Gudah/God). But in Guarani there's Tupan (Tupã). Aboriginally is an electric phoenix hybrid but amiable. Abá (peopling in Guarani) is also a word for〈parented〉beings, in this case us (mankins/parabeings). P- of people comes from para-, meaning in Guarani -gent- (gente in Portuguese), translated as gentle agent, otherwise people and God. Gender comes from genesis (so agender=agenesis=agonadal). Hermetic afro (hermafrodite=America×Africa, aboriginated by God. 
But Lilith was the first plutonic ovary (Africa). Adan was AdanEva, so Hemaphrodite that was ambigonadal. Anisogamy is peopling  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sbonetti (talk • contribs) 07:30, 26 August 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Guarani and Portuguese