Odin

Meaning

Proper Noun

• A major Germanic god, in his Norse form a member of the Æsir, married to Frigg and associated with knowledge, poetry, and war. Wednesday refers to him by way of interpretatio germanica.

Related

Similar words

• All-Father
• Wotan
• Woden
• Odhin, Odhinn, Othinn (anglicizations, as is Odin)
• Wodan

Origin

• (whence Icelandic Óðinn, English Oden), akin to Old High German Wodan and Old English Wōden. From Proto-Germanic *Wōdanaz, derived from Proto-Germanic *wōdaz ("rage, manic inspiration, furor poeticus"), from Proto-Indo-European *weh₂t- ("to be excited"). Compare Old Norse óðr ("rage") and Dutch woede ("rage") and woeden, Latin vātēs. Related to English wode.