Cofgod
'Cofgod' (plural Cofgodas ("cove-gods")) was an Old English term for a household god in Anglo-Saxon paganism. The Classicist Ken Dowden opined that the "cofgodas" were the equivalent of the "Penates" found in Ancient Rome. Dowden also compared them to the Kobolds of later German folklore, arguing that they had both originated from the "kofewalt", a spirit that had power over a room. If it is true that such beings were known to the early English, later legendary beings such as the English hob and Anglo-Celtic brownie would be the modern survival of the "cofgod". However, the  only instance of the word "cofgodas" in Old English is as a gloss (an explanatory definition) to the Latin word "penates." As in other instances where an Old English term only appears glossing a Latin word, this may mean that the term was invented to explain a foreign Latin concept, rather than that it serves as definitive evidence that the concept existed among the English of the period.