Wodan

Learned borrowing from Old High German Wōdan, from Proto-Germanic *Wōdanaz. Cognate with Old English and Old Saxon Woden, German Wotan, and Old Norse Óðinn. The native Dutch Woen is rare (and not inherited) as a simplex, but was preserved through inheritance in compounds, such as woensdag and toponyms like Woensdrecht.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋoː.dɑn/
• Hyphenation: Wo‧dan

Wodan m

1. the Germanic chief god; Wotan, Odin or Woden

   Synonyms: Odin, Woen

• Wodansbaard, wodansbaard
• Wodansdag
• wodankies
• Wodanskruid, wodanskruid
• Wodansvogel

• woensdag

• IPA^(key): /ˈvoːdaːn/

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Wodan m (proper noun, strong, genitive Wodans)

1. alternative form of Wotan

• ᚹᛟᛞᚨᚾ (wodan), Uuodan, Wuotan

From Proto-West Germanic *Wōdan, from Proto-Germanic *Wōdanaz. Cognate with Old English Wōden, Lombardic Godan, Old Norse Óðinn.

Wōdan m

1. The supreme deity of the Germanic pantheon, corresponding to the Scandinavian god Odin
   • c. late 500s – early 600s, Inscription on the First Nordendorf Fibula:

     ᛚᛟᚷᚨᚦᛟᚱᛖ
     ᚹᛟᛞᚨᚾ
     ᚹᛁᚷᛁᚦᛟᚾᚨᚱ

     logaþore
     wodan
     wigiþonar

     Sorcerers (?)
     Wodan
     Battle-Donar (?)

   • c. 800 CE – 900 CE, Second Merseburg Charm line 1:

     Phol ende uuodan / uuorun zi holza.

     Phol and Wodan were riding to the woods.

• → Dutch: Wodan (learned)
• → German: Wotan, Wodan, Wuodan, Wuotan (learned)
  • → English: Wotan
• → Latin: Vōdanus

• Köbler, Gerhard (2014), “Wodan*”, in Althochdeutsches Wörterbuch‎^[1] (in German), 6th edition