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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology | 1996 | | © The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology 1996, originally published by Oxford University Press 1996. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

bellows instrument used to blow a fire. ME. belwes, belows, pl. of belu, below, prob. repr. OE. pl. belga, belgum, of bel(i)ġ, bæl(i)ġ BELLY, which in late OE. occurs as abbrev. of earlier blæstbel(i)ġ ‘blowing-bag’ = ON. blāstrbelgr; see BLAST, BELLY.

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