afgod
Meaning
Noun
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- Unknown, possibly from a (literally off- + god), but first attested in early modern dictionaries of Old English and probably mistakenly attributed based on Dutch afgod or Old Saxon afgod, which appears in pseudo-Bede's translation of the Sermon for All Saints' Day. The Dutch, Old Saxon, etc. forms derive from Old High German abgot ("idol, pagan god"), from ab- + got. Compare Old English รฆfgรฆlรพ ("superstition") and Gothic ๐ฐ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ธ๐.
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