Where does “gall” come from?

Gall comes from French galle, from Latin galla, from Proto-Indo-European gel-, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European ǵʰelh₃-.

gall (English): Bile, especially that of an animal; the greenish,...

Definitions

  1. Bile, especially that of an animal; the greenish,...

Ancestry of “gall”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Englishgalle—
2Old Frenchgalle—
3Latingallathe oak apple, gall-nut; a harsh, sour kind of...
4Gaulishgallāvessel
5Proto-Germanicgallǭgall, bile
6Proto-Indo-Europeanǵʰelh₃-to flourish; green, yellow
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