Woden

Learned borrowing from Old English Wōden, from Proto-Germanic *Wōdanaz. Doublet of Odin and Wotan.

Woden

1. The Germanic chief god, distributor of talents and god of wisdom and war (corresponding to Odin), especially in his Anglo-Saxon form.
   • 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, song 11 p. 175:

     From Woden, by which name they stiled Mercurie.

• Wodenism

• Wednesday
• Wensley

• Downe, downe, endow, nowed, owned, woned

• *Wēden, *Wœden
• Wodæn
• Woddan

From Proto-Germanic *Wōdanaz. Cognate with Old Saxon Wōden, Old High German Wodan, Old Norse Óðinn. Doublet of Ōþen.

• IPA^(key): /ˈwoː.den/

Wōden m

1. Woden
   • 10th century, Codex Exoniensis 341, 28:

     Wōden worhte wēos, wuldor alwalda rūme roderas

     Woden made idols, the Almighty made glory and the vast skies

   • late 9th century, translation of Bede's Ecclesiastical History

     Henġest and Horsa wǣron Wihtġīlses suna, þæs fæder wæs Witta hāten, þæs fæder wæs Wihta hāten, þæs fæder wæs Wōden nemned, of þæs strīende maniġra mǣġða cyningcynn fruman lǣdde.

     Hengest and Horsa were the sons of Wihtgyls, whose father was named Witta, whose father was named Wihta, whose father was named Woden, from whose lineage the royal families of many nations originated.

• Wōdening
• wōdnesdæġ (“Wednesday”)

• → Latin: Wothen
• Middle English: Woden
• → English: Woden (learned)

From Proto-Germanic *Wōdanaz.

Woden

1. Woden
   • 9th century, Old Saxon Baptismal Vow, line 3:

     thunaer ende uuoden ende saxnote

     Thunaer and Woden and Saxnot

• wodanesdag

• Middle Low German: Wode

1. "woden" in Köbler, Gerhard, Altsächsisches Wörterbuch (5th edition 2014)
2. "wodenesdach" in Köbler, Gerhard, Mittelniederdeutsches Wörterbuch (3rd edition 2014)