god – English noun declension

English noun forms of god

Noun: god
Singulargod
Pluralgods

Sample Sentences

  • The most frequently used name for the Islamic god is Allah.
  • When ancient Greeks had a thought, it occurred to them as a god or goddess giving an order. Apollo was telling them to be brave. Athena was telling them to fall in love. [2002, Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby:]
  • Leo Messi is my god!
  • whose god is their belly [1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Philippians 3:19:]
  • There was an order in the universe, but it was no longer the order of the past. There was only one God, whose name was steam and spoke in the voice of Malthus, McCulloch, and anyone who employed machinery. [1962, Eric Hobsbawm, The Age of Revolution. 1789-1848, page 186:]
  • In 1951 Stalin was a god and the official tone towards the West was one of total antagonism. [1959, Percy E. Corbett, Law in Diplomacy, page 105:]
  • He is the god of soccer!
  • Lounging on the beach were several Greek gods.
  • Someone had said he'd look a god in kilts. [a. 1918, Wilfred Owen, Disabled:]
  • The gods usually have several wizards, or "immortals," to assist them in building the MUD. [1996, Andy Eddy, Internet after hours:]
  • The wizzes are only the junior grade of the MUD illuminati. The people who attain the senior grade of MUD freemasonry by starting their own MUD, with all due hubris, are known as gods. [2003, David Lojek, Emote to the Max, page 11:]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰew-
3. Proto-Indo-European *-tós
4. Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰutós?
5. Proto-Germanic *gudą
6. Proto-West Germanic *god
7. Old English god
8. Middle English god
9. English god
10. Inherited from Middle English god, from Old English god, originally neuter, then changed to masculine to reflect the change in religion to Christianity, from Proto-West Germanic *god n, from Proto-Germanic *gudą; see there for further origin.
11. Cognates
12. Cognate with Scots God (“God”), Yola God, Gud (“God”), gud (“god”), Saterland Frisian God (“God”), West Frisian God (“God”), god (“deity, god”), Alemannic German, Cimbrian, German, Luxembourgish and Mòcheno Gott (“God”), Central Franconian Jott (“God”), Dutch god (“deity, god”), Limburgish Gód (“God”), gód (“god”), Vilamovian Göt (“God”), Yiddish גאָט (got, “god; God”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål and Swedish gud (“god; God”), Faroese Gud (“God”), Icelandic goð (“idol, pagan god”), guð, Guð (“God”), Norwegian Nynorsk Gu, Gud (“God”), gu, gud (“god”), Gothic 𐌲𐌿𐌸 (guþ, “deity, god; God”).
13. Not related to the word good or Persian خدا (xodâ, “god”). See: Middle English Nouns 'god', Middle English Nouns 'god', Old English Nouns 'god', Dutch Nouns 'god', Swedish Nouns 'gud', Icelandic Nouns 'goð', Gothic Nouns '𐌲𐌿𐌸'.

Verbs referencing "god"

Danish Nouns gud, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns gud, German Nouns Gott.