galosh

Etymology

Comes from Middle English galoche, from Old French galoche (‘a shoe with a wooden sole’), though its earlier history is uncertain. Further theories put it: from Vulgar Latin *galopium or Late Latin calopedia (‘a wooden shoe; a shoe with a wooden sole’), from Ancient Greek κᾱλοπόδιον (kālopódion), a diminutive of κᾱλόπους (kālópous, ‘shoemaker's block’), itself made up of κᾶλον (kâlon, ‘wood’) and πούς (poús, ‘foot’) (see also holt and foot); or from Late Latin gallicula, a diminutive of Latin gallica (solea) (‘Gallic (sandal)’); or from Old French galette (‘flat round cake’), from galet (‘pebble’).