Where does “garish” come from?
Garish comes from Middle English gawren, from Old Norse gá, from Old Norse geyja, from Proto-Indo-European ǵʰengʰ-.
garish (English): Overly ostentatious; so colourful as to be in bad...
Definitions
- Overly ostentatious; so colourful as to be in bad...
Ancestry of “garish”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Middle English | gawren | to stare |
| 2 | Old Norse | gá | barking; attention; to heed |
| 3 | Old Norse | geyja | to bark |
| 4 | Proto-Germanic | *gawjaną | — |
Words derived from “garish”