The story
- Proto-Indo-European · derived from*ǵʰley-“to gleam, glow, shimmer”
- Old English · inherited fromglōm“gloaming, twilight; darkness”
- Middle English · inherited from*gloom
- English todaygloomies
A fanciful plural of gloomy: gloomy + -ies (suffix forming plural nouns ending in y). Gloom is derived from Middle English *gloom, *glom, from Old English glōm (“gloaming, twilight; darkness”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰley- (“to gleam, glow, shimmer”).
Words from the same roots
Middle English*gloom all →
gloomglome
Old Englishglōm all →
gloomgloamingglome
Proto-Indo-European*ǵʰley- all →
glitterglimpsegloomgleamglintglimglister
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.