Wotan

Etymology
Borrowed from. .

Proper noun

 * 1)  Odin, especially in his continental Germanic form.

Etymology
Ultimately from, cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. Attested since the 12th century in the Latin Chronicon of Godfrey of Viterbo, where it is spelled Wotan. In Old High German, the name is attested as.

After Christianization, the name appears to have persisted in folklore and formed various derivations, such as 🇨🇬, ; 🇨🇬.

In literary modern German, the spellings Wodan and Wotan competed during the early 19th century, but Wotan became prevalent in the wake of Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen, published in 1853.

A male given name Wotan (also Wuotan, Woatan) is attested in Latin beginning in the 9th century. It became obsolete during the high medieval period, but was revived as a rare given name in the 20th century.

Proper noun

 * 1) Woden/Odin, a deity of the old Germanic religion, and of modern German reconstructions of this religion