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Old Irish
Etymology
From Latin Belzebuth, variant of Beelzebub, from Koine Greek Βεελζεβούλ (Beelzeboúl), from Biblical Hebrew בַּעַל זְבוּב (baʿal zəḇûḇ, “fly-lord”).
Proper noun
Belzefuth m
- Beelzebub
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 4d15
In Belzefuth: is béss didu ind lïacc benir il-béim friss, et intí do·thuit foir ɔ·boing a chnámi, intí fora tuit-som immurgu at·bail-side.- The Beelzebub: it is the custom, then, of the stone that many blows are hit against it, and he who falls upon it breaks his bones; however, he whom it falls on perishes