Where does “Gold Coast” come from?

Gold Coast (English) comes from English coast, from Middle English coste, from Old French costé, from Latin costātus, from Latin costa, from Proto-Indo-European kost-.

Gold Coast (English): The region was later incorporated into the eponymous British colony, that later became Ghana

Definitions

  1. The region was later incorporated into the eponymous British colony, that later became Ghana

Ancestry of “Gold Coast”, step by step

Gold Coast traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via English coast

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishcoastThe edge of the land where it meets an ocean,...
2Middle Englishcoste
3Old Frenchcostéside
4Latincostātusribbed
5Latincostaa rib; a side, a wall
6Proto-Indo-Europeankost-

via English Gold

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishGoldfor a goldsmith or a rich man
2Middle Englishgoldgold metal
3Old Englishgoldgold
4Proto-Germanicgulþągold
5Proto-Indo-Europeanǵʰl̥tómgold
6Proto-Indo-Europeanǵʰelh₃-to flourish; green, yellow

Words derived from “Gold Coast

Every word from Proto-Indo-European kost-Every word from Latin costaEvery word from Latin costātus
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