vulgar

The story

1. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*welH-
2. Latin · derived fromvulgāris
3. Middle English · inherited fromvulgare
4. English todayvulgar

From Middle English vulgare, from Latin vulgāris, from volgus, vulgus (“mob; common folk”), from Proto-Indo-European *welH-. Compare Welsh gwala (“plenty, sufficiency”), Ancient Greek ἁλία (halía, “assembly”), εἰλέω (eiléō, “to compress”), Proto-Slavic *valъ.

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