The story
- Old English · inherited fromgodfæder“godfather”
- Middle English · inherited fromgodfader
- English todaygodfather
From Middle English godfader, from Old English godfæder (“godfather”), equivalent to god- + father. Cognate with Old Saxon godfadar (“godfather”), Middle Dutch godvader (“godfather”), Danish gudfader, gudfar (“godfather”), Swedish gudfader, gudfar (“godfather”), Icelandic guðfaðir (“godfather”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.