Where does “globe” come from?

globe (Danish) comes from French globe, from Middle French globe, from Old French globe, from Latin globus, from Proto-Indo-European gel- — to be cold, to freeze.

globe (Danish): globe

Definitions

  1. globe

Ancestry of “globe”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchglobeglobe
2Middle Frenchgloberoll; globe
3Old Frenchglobe
4Latinglobusany round object; a sphere; a globe; a glob,...
5Proto-Indo-Europeangel-to be cold, to freeze
Every word from Proto-Indo-European gel-
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