Wotan
[ˈvoʊtən]Meaning
German form of Old High German Wodan, cognate with the English Woden
Background Story
Wotan is a German name, borrowed into English from German. It goes back to the Old High German Wodan, from Proto-West Germanic *Wōdan and Proto-Germanic *Wōdanaz. It is a doublet of Odin and is cognate with the English Woden, the Icelandic Óðinn, and Oden in Norwegian Nynorsk, Danish and Swedish.
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