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==Notes==
This page has no references.  I am also unclear as to whether this is a list of deities FROM proto-Germanic paganism or someone's proposed list of deities FOR neo-pagan activities - I think the latter, but the wording is unclear. --[[User:Brianyoumans|Brianyoumans]] 03:54, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

If this page is useful (which I'm not sure it is), there should also be ASCII-ized versions of the names.  --[[User:Brianyoumans|Brianyoumans]] 03:57, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
:What do you mean, ascii-ized? This is the common spelling for reconstructed proto-germanic... [[User:Wakuran|惑乱 分からん]] 17:11, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
::Ascii means in normal type that are on English keyboards without accent marks.[[User:Goldenrowley|Goldenrowley]] 05:12, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

==Cleaning up==
1) *'''*Lohho''' is the reconstructed form for Old High German. The protogermanic form should be *Lukan. But since this god is mentioned only in Norse Eddic Literature, he can not be considered as Protogermanic. 2) *Frījō is in Old Norse Frigg not Freyja, which would be *Frauwjō.

Please don´t change this article, when you are not good in the subject of Proto-Germanic language! One who knows about, may see easily, that *Lohho is an impossible form and he does not mix up Frigg with Freya etc! --[[User:Al-Qamar|Al-Qamar]] 16:07, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

-The problem is that there is absolutely no logic nor any academic support for Proto-Germanic deities. Being able to backtrace an Iron Age Germanic name to a possible Bronze Age name is not the same as being able to prove it was actually a deity. What would be both unequivocally logical and academically supported would be citing all the various deities in the various ACTUAL Germanic language sources. [[User:Bunnyman78|Bunnyman78]] ([[User talk:Bunnyman78|talk]]) 11:20, 5 November 2015 (UTC)

==Reference Info==

A bit hard to locate this stuff in the reference works due to an inability to link directly to the entries, and it's hard to make edits without understanding the article:

:प्रिय '''priy-á''' ''a.'' [√prî] dear, beloved, of (''d., g., lc.,'' —°); favourite, cherished; pleasing, agreeable; dear, expensive (very rare); fond of, prone or attached to (''lc. or'' —°); °— ''of a. cpds. before a noun,'' fond of, devoted to; ''with ab.'' dearer than; '''-m,''' ''ad.'' agreeably, kindly; ''in.'' gladly; ''m.'' friend; lover, husband; son-in-law; ''n.'' kindness, favour, pleasing ''or'' kind act; '''-â,''' ''f.'' beloved, mistress, wife; female (''of an animal'').  〚http://dsal.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/romadict.pl?page=105&table=macdonell 〛

:('''frija''' lieb) '''frijô''' Gattin. an. Frigg f. Gattin des Odin; ahd. Frija. Dazu ags. frîgedæg (an. frjâdagr), afries. frîgendei, mnd. vrîdach; ahd. frîadag, frîjetag, frîtach, mhd. frîetac, frîtac, nhd. Freitag »dies Veneris« (ags. fréo f. as. frî n. Weib von edler Abstammung gehört eher hierher als zu frîja frei, vgl. an. frî m. Geliebter, Gatte). Vgl. skr. priyá lieb, m. der Geliebte, Gatte, f. priyá die Geliebte, Gattin. (247:5; religion).  〚Page 129 of http://lexicon.ff.cuni.cz/pdf/pgmc_torp/pgmc_torp_20061216.pdf. The entries for '''fri''' and '''frījõn''' are on the preceding page. 〛
[[User:Patrickcharleshayes|Patrickcharleshayes]] ([[User talk:Patrickcharleshayes|talk]]) 05:27, 11 July 2010 (UTC)

== This page has lots of issues ==

I am really not sure whether going the whole mile and reconstructing a Proto-Germanic form (they weren't even marked with asterisks!) for each of these mythological entities is useful, it looks like some speculative BS, to put it succinctly. Many of these are only attested a thousand years after PGmc was last more or less a unified language community, it is so ahistorical to just project this mythology verbatim back onto the late first millennium BC. — [[User:Mnemosientje|Mnemosientje]] ([[User talk:Mnemosientje|t]] · [[Special:Contributions/Mnemosientje|c]]) 09:15, 3 December 2019 (UTC)

== Easter ==
The Easter goddess is most likely a uniquely West Germanic goddess as no reference is found about her in the North Germanic sources. In the date of the Old English holyday linked to Easter by Bede one finds the Sigrblot (Sacrifice for victory) instead.  <!-- Template:Unsigned IP --><small class="autosigned">—&nbsp;Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[Special:Contributions/45.227.139.237|45.227.139.237]] ([[User talk:45.227.139.237#top|talk]]) 08:05, 5 December 2019 (UTC)</small> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->