Etymology

gyros

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Greek γύρος
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  1. Greek · borrowed fromγύρος
  2. English todaygyros

From Greek γύρος (gýros); from the turning of the meat on a spit (as a calque of Turkish döner into Greek).

Words from the same roots

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