Etymology

Wotanism

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Today it means: A white supremacist racial religion promulgated by David Lane. Full definition →

German Wotan
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The story

  1. German · borrowed fromWotan“Odin”
  2. English todayWotanism

* From German Wotan (“Odin”) + -ism. * White supremacist David Lane chose the spelling because it allowed the backronym "will of the Aryan nation".

Words from the same roots

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.