Etymograph

English

German Gully

German+gully.

A compound of German + gully

Latin Germānus ‘the peoples of Germānia’

English German

Middle English golet ‘esophagus, gullet’

English gully

The story

The naming date from the Victoria Gold Rush, when an influx of non-British immigrants resulted in communities that worked gullies to find gold, where those gullies were named after those ethnicities.

Today it means

name A gully in Victoria, Australia; Any of several such gullies which were worked as goldfields during the Gold Rush.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / German Gully