Where does “glob” come from?

glob (Romanian) comes from French globe, from Middle French globe, from Old French globe, from Latin globus, from Proto-Indo-European gel- — to be cold, to freeze.

glob (Romanian): globe

Definitions

  1. globe

Ancestry of “glob”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchglobeglobe
2Middle Frenchgloberoll; globe
3Old Frenchglobe
4Latinglobusany round object; a sphere; a globe; a glob,...
5Proto-Indo-Europeangel-to be cold, to freeze

Words derived from “glob

Every word from Proto-Indo-European gel-