galosh

1. Old Frenchgalette“flat round cake”
2. Latingallica“Gallic (sandal)”
3. Late Latingallicula
4. Ancient Greekκᾱλοπόδιον
5. Late Latincalopedia“a wooden shoe; a shoe with a wooden sole”
6. Vulgar Latin*galopium
7. Old Frenchgaloche“a shoe with a wooden sole”
8. Middle Englishgaloche
9. Englishgalosh

From Middle English galoche, from Old French galoche (“a shoe with a wooden sole”), but its further history is uncertain. further theories * From Vulgar Latin *galopium or Late Latin calopedia (“a wooden shoe; a shoe with a wooden sole”), from Ancient Greek κᾱλοπόδιον (kālopódion), diminutive of κᾱλόπους (kālópous, “shoemaker's block”), compound of κᾶλον (kâlon, “wood”) and πούς (poús, “foot”). (More at holt and foot.) * From Late Latin gallicula, diminutive of Latin gallica (solea) (“Gallic (sandal)”). * From Old French galette (“flat round cake”), from galet (“pebble”).

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