Etymology

Baduhenna

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Today it means: A goddess in Germanic paganism. Full definition →

Proto-Germanic *badwō
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The story

  1. Proto-Germanic · derived from*badwō“battle, fight”
  2. English todayBaduhenna

Learned Germanic borrowing through Tacitus' Annals, the first element from Proto-Germanic *badwō (“battle, fight”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.