Where does “glume” come from?
glume (French) comes from Latin gluma, from Latin glubo, from Proto-Italic glouβō, from Proto-Indo-European glewbʰ- — to split.
Ancestry of “glume”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Latin | gluma | husk of grain; chaff |
| 2 | Latin | glubo | I strip the bark from a tree, I peel, I shuck; I... |
| 3 | Proto-Italic | glouβō | to split |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | glewbʰ- | to split |
Words derived from “glume”