The story
- Proto-Indo-European · derived from*ǵenh₁-“to beget, give birth; to produce”
- Latin · derived fromgemmula“small bud; small gem”
- French · borrowed fromgemmule
- English todaygemmule
Borrowed from French gemmule, from Latin gemmula (“small bud; small gem”), from gemma (“bud of a plant; gem, jewel; thing made of precious stones”) (further etymology uncertain; possibly from Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁- (“to beget, give birth; to produce”), but see further at that entry) + -ula (feminine form of -ulus (diminutive suffix)).
Words from the same roots
Proto-Indo-European*ǵenh₁- all →
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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.