Where does “gear” come from?

gear (Portuguese) comes from Old Portuguese gear, from Latin gelō, from Latin -ō, from Proto-Indo-European -ō — Derives nouns from roots.

gear (Portuguese): to frost

Definitions

  1. to frost

Ancestry of “gear”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Portuguesegear—
2Latingelō—
3Latin-ōsuffixed to nouns or adjectives. Originally a-stem nouns. Later extended to nouns with other stems. Forms regular first-conjugation verbs
4Proto-Indo-European-ōDerives nouns from roots
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -ō →Every word from Latin -ō →Every word from Latin gelō →