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"2": "dum",
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},
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"name": "der"
},
{
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"1": "nl",
"2": "odt",
"3": "Wuodan",
"4": "",
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{
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},
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},
{
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},
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},
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"name": "cog"
},
{
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"2": "Wotan"
},
"expansion": "German Wotan",
"name": "cog"
},
{
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},
"expansion": "Icelandic Óðinn",
"name": "cog"
},
{
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"1": "fo",
"2": "Óðin"
},
"expansion": "Faroese Óðin",
"name": "cog"
},
{
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"2": "Oden"
},
"expansion": "Norwegian Nynorsk, Danish, and Swedish Oden",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "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 woeden (“to rage”), woede (“anger”) and woedend (“angry”). Cognate with English Woden, German Wotan, Icelandic Óðinn, Faroese Óðin, and Norwegian Nynorsk, Danish, and Swedish Oden.",
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{
"english": "One of their idols, of their own creation, was Woden, the stormwind, whence we still have conserved the heathen word Wednesday and Woden's carriage (...)",
"ref": "1864",
"text": "Een van die afgoden, van hun eigen maaksel, was Woen, de stormwind, van waar wy nog het heidensch woord Woens-dag en Woens-wagen (...) bewaard hebben. (Gezelle, 1864)",
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},
{
"english": "That young man is growing in his imagination into a Woden who rides through the skies on a winged horse.",
"ref": "1926",
"text": "Die jonge kerel groeit in zijne verbeelding tot een Woen die op een gevleugeld ros door de lucht rijdt. (Stijn Streuvels, 1926)",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"english": "The god Woden is hence named after the exalted ecstasy our heathen forefathers imagined when they thought of him.",
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"text": "2013",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"Woden/Odin, a major Germanic god often described as chief of the pantheon."
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],
[
"Woden",
"Woden"
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[
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"(Germanic mythology and paganism, rare) Woden/Odin, a major Germanic god often described as chief of the pantheon."
],
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"word": "Wodan"
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{
"word": "Odin"
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},
{
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},
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"Dutch terms derived from Proto-Germanic",
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"Dutch terms with quotations",
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"english": "One of their idols, of their own creation, was Woden, the stormwind, whence we still have conserved the heathen word Wednesday and Woden's carriage (...)",
"ref": "1864",
"text": "Een van die afgoden, van hun eigen maaksel, was Woen, de stormwind, van waar wy nog het heidensch woord Woens-dag en Woens-wagen (...) bewaard hebben. (Gezelle, 1864)",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"english": "That young man is growing in his imagination into a Woden who rides through the skies on a winged horse.",
"ref": "1926",
"text": "Die jonge kerel groeit in zijne verbeelding tot een Woen die op een gevleugeld ros door de lucht rijdt. (Stijn Streuvels, 1926)",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"english": "The god Woden is hence named after the exalted ecstasy our heathen forefathers imagined when they thought of him.",
"roman": "De god Woen is dus genoemd naar de opperste vervoering die onze heidense voorouders zich bij hem voorstelden.",
"text": "2013",
"type": "quotation"
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"Woden/Odin, a major Germanic god often described as chief of the pantheon."
],
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"Odin"
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],
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"word": "Wodan"
},
{
"word": "Odin"
}
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"Germanic",
"masculine",
"rare"
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"philosophy",
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},
{
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}
],
"word": "Woen"
}
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