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It comes from the same word, gelum, Latin for frost, which also gives us "gelatin" and "gelato". "Cold", on the other hand, comes from Germanic roots (Proto-Ge
by cbd1984 11y ago
It comes from the same word, gelum, Latin for frost, which also gives us "gelatin" and "gelato".
"Cold", on the other hand, comes from Germanic roots (Proto-Germanic kaldaz.)
They both come from the Proto-Indo-European root gel-/gol- "cold".
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=cold&allowed_in_frame=0 http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=cold&allowed_in_fra...