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

  1. Overly ostentatious; so colourful as to be in bad...

Ancestry of “garish”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Englishgawrento stare
2Old Norsegábarking; attention; to heed
3Old Norsegeyjato bark
4Proto-Germanic*gawjanąto bark

Words derived from “garish”

Every word from Proto-Germanic *gawjaną →Every word from Old Norse geyja →Every word from Old Norse gá →
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