God, Gott, Gud, etc., have different meanings.
In Finnish he's called Jumala
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumala
So what was the original meaning of our word 'God'?
One claim I came across was that it was the name of "the changes that happen in the life of an individual or community when certain riituals are performed". Later the belief evolved that these changes came about as a consequence of the operations of the will of a "supernatural anthropomorphic intelligence" that the rituals made contact with. Unusual natural events ... such as eclipses, etc., were then explained as being caused by this being.
I often say to Christians: "If there is only one God they why don't all languages use the same name?"
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