Where does “gloeikous” come from?
gloeikous (Dutch) comes from Dutch kous, from Middle Dutch couse, from Picard Old French cauce, from Vulgar Latin calcea, from Latin calceus, from Latin calx, from Ancient Greek χάλιξ — small stone, pebble; gravel, rubble.
gloeikous (Dutch): an incandescent gas mantle
Definitions
- an incandescent gas mantle
Ancestry of “gloeikous”, step by step
gloeikous traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.