Eng/god

==English==
From Middle English, from Old English god (“deity”), Old High German got (a rank of deity) originally neuter, then changed to masculine to reflect the change in religion to Christianity, both from Proto-Germanic *gudan, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰuto- (“invoked; poured, libated”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰewH- (“to call, to invoke”) or *ǵʰew- (“to pour”). Not related to the word good.
==Old English==
From Proto-Germanic *gudan, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰuto- (“invoked; poured, libated”), from an original root *ǵʰaw-, *ǵʰawH- (“call, invoke”) or *ǵʰew- (“pour”). Germanic cognates include Old Frisian god, Old Saxon god (Low German gad), Dutch god, Old High German got (German Gott), Old Norse goð, guð (Danish and Swedish gud), Gothic 𐌲𐌿𐌸 (guþ). The Indo-European root is also the source of Ancient Greek καυχάομαι (kaukhaomai, “I extol, boast”), Old Irish guth (“voice”), Old Church Slavonic wiktionary:зъвати (Russian звать (zvat’, “call”)).
==Old Norse==
; gothi
A goði or gothi (plural goðar) is the Old Norse term for a priest and chieftain. Gyðja signifies a priestess.
The name appears in Wulfila's Gothic language translation of the bible as gudja for "priest", but in Old Norse it is only the feminine form gyðja that perfectly corresponds to the Gothic form. The corresponding masculine Old Norse form would have been an unattested **gyði.
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