The word...not the entity...check the 2nd paragraph god (n.) Look up god at Dictionary Old English god supreme being, deity; the Christian God; image of a god; godlike person, from Proto-Germanic *guthan (cognates: Old Saxon, Old Frisian, Dutch god, Old High German got, German Gott, Old Norse guð, Gothic guþ), from PIE *ghut- that which is invoked (cognates: Old Church Slavonic zovo to call, Sanskrit huta- invoked, an epithet of Indra), from root *gheu(e)- to call, invoke. But some trace it to PIE *ghu-to- poured, from root *gheu- to pour, pour a libation (source of Greek khein to pour, also in the phrase khute gaia poured earth, referring to a burial mound; see found (v.2)). Given the Greek facts, the Germanic form may have referred in the first instance to the spirit immanent in a burial mound
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