Etymograph

English

Goddard

Goddard comes from Old High German got ‘God’, and goes back to Proto-Germanic *gudą.

  1. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*gudą‘god, deity’reconstructed
  2. Proto-West Germanicc. 200–500 CE*god‘god, deity’reconstructed
  3. Old High Germanc. 750–1050got‘God’
  4. EnglishtodayGoddard

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Earlier history uncertain.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*gudą‘god, deity’reconstructed
  2. Proto-West Germanicc. 200–500 CE*god‘god, deity’reconstructed
  3. Old High Germanc. 750–1050got‘God’
  4. EnglishtodayGoddard

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰew- ‘to pour’

chemist, futile, gust, futility, gush, geyser, ingot, 23 more

through Proto-West Germanic *god ‘god, deity’

god, giddy, 1 more

Today it means

name A male given name from the Germanic languages.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Proto-Germanic *gudą / Goddard

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