"G" Word Origins

Probably a blend of gwop + moola, like scrilla.

Borrowed from Welsh Gwyneth.

A shortened form of "gymnasium."

From Latin gymnasium, from Greek gymnasion ("exercise, school"), rooted in gymnos ("naked") — Greek athletes trained without clothes.

From Greek gymnastes ("trainer of athletes"), rooted in gymnos ("naked").

From Greek gymnastikos, related to gymnastes ("athlete"), from gymnos ("naked").

From Greek gyne ("woman") plus the suffix -logist ("one who studies").

Internationalism. From gyneco- + -mastia.

Likely derived from "gypsy," reflecting an old and unfair stereotype of the Roma people as swindlers.

Blend of gypsum + rock.

From the genus name.

From Latin gypsum, from Greek gypsos.

See Gypsy. Compare bohemian, from Bohemia.

From gypsy + -craft.

Back-formation from gyration, on the basis of -ate (verb-forming suffix), from gyre (“to spin around; to gyrate, to whirl; (rare) to make (something) spin or whirl around; to spin, to whirl”) + -ation (suffix indicating actions or processes), further from Late Middle English giren (“to turn (something) away; to cause (something) to revolve or rotate; to travel in a circle”), from Old French girer (“to turn”), from Latin gȳrō (“to turn in a circle, rotate; to circle or revolve around”), from gȳrus (“circle; circular motion; circuit, course”) + -ō (first conjugation verb-forming suffix), from Ancient Greek γῦρος (gûros, “a circle, a ring”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gew- (“to bend; to curve”). By surface analysis, gyre + -ate (verb-forming suffix).

From gyre (“to spin around; to gyrate, to whirl; (rare) to make (something) spin or whirl around; to spin, to whirl”) + -ation (suffix indicating actions or processes). Gyre is from Late Middle English giren (“to turn (something) away; to cause (something) to revolve or rotate; to travel in a circle”), from Old French girer (“to turn”), and directly from its etymon Latin gȳrāre, the present active infinitive of gȳrō (“to turn in a circle, rotate; to circle or revolve around”) (from gȳrus (“circle; circular motion; circuit, course”), from Ancient Greek γῦρος (gûros, “a circle, a ring”), from Proto-Indo-European *gew- (“to bend; to curve”)) + -ō (suffix forming regular first-conjugation verbs).

Borrowed from Latin gȳrus (“circle; circular motion”), from Ancient Greek γῦρος (gûros, “circle; ring”), from Proto-Indo-European *gew- (“to bend; to curve”). The English word is a doublet of gyro and gyrus.

From Greek gyros ("turn"), describing the meat turning on a spit — the same root behind "gyroscope."

Coined in 1852 by physicist Léon Foucault from Greek gyros ("circle") and skopos ("watcher").