Etymology

godkin

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Today it means: A little god; a minor or inferior deity; godling. Full definition →

Dutch godeken
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The story

  1. Dutch · borrowed fromgodeken“godkin”
  2. English todaygodkin

From god + -kin, perhaps also from Dutch godeken (“godkin”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.