Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *gudąScott K. ShayWardja Presshttps://protogermanic.org/pgmc_gudą
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говѣтиto revere*ǵʰutóm
nounneutera-stemgod, deityUnknown. Traditionally derived from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰutóm (neuter past participle), either meaning “(that which is) invoked”, from *ǵʰewH- (‘to call, to invoke’), or ‘libated, poured as part of a liquid offering’, from *ǵʰew- (‘to pour’), perhaps via the earlier meaning of ‘[libation made to an] idol’ or ‘spirit immanent in a burial mound’. However, the derivation from *ǵʰewH- would normally result in long ū, and the root *ǵʰew- only occurs in Germanic in the extended form *ǵʰewd-.Another hypothesis is a derivation from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰutóm, connected to Old Church Slavonic говѣти (gověti, ‘to revere’) (see Proto-Slavic *gověti). A non-Indo-European origin has also been proposed.