Gott
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Usage notes
The word was neuter in Old High German, but Christianity shifted the word to masculine, and necessitated the creation of a separate word (Göttin) for goddess. Thus in Christian contexts the word is usually masculine, while in Heathen ones it is usually neuter.
Related terms
- Gottesacker
- Götterdämmerung
- Gottesfurcht
- Göttergabe
- göttergleich
- Götterlehre
- Göttin
- göttlich
- Göttlichkeit
- gottlos
- Gottesreich
- Götz
- Götze
- mein Bott