hellegod

From hell (“hell”) +‎ god (“god”). Cognate with Old High German hellagot.

• IPA^(key): /ˈxel.le.ɡod/, [ˈheɫ.ɫe.ɣod]

hellegod n

1. god of the Underworld

   Orfeus wolde ġesēċan hellegodu and biddan ðæt hī him āgeāfan eft his wīf.

   Orpheus would visit the gods of the Underworld and pray that they give him his wife again.

2. god of Hell

Strong a-stem:

• Joseph Bosworth, T. Northcote Toller (1898) “helle-god”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.