Woden/Odin, a major Germanic god often described as chief of the pantheon. · a male given name from Old High German, of rare usage
eş: Odin
köken: Learned borrowing from Old High German Wodan, from Proto-West Germanic *Wōdan, from Proto-Germanic *Wōdanaz. Cognate with English Woden, Norwegian Nynorsk, Danish, and Swedish Oden, and Icelandic Óðinn. Doublet of Odin.
A learned back-formation from the 18th or 19th century from woensdag, the first element of which is a syncopic variation through d-weakening (compare broer and broeder) of Middle Dutch *Woeden, which may have existed as simplex or only as an element in compounds, which in turn derived from Old Dutch Wuodan (“Woden”), from Proto-West Germanic *Wōdan, from Proto-Germanic *Wōdanaz. Related to Dutch…