English
Goracle
Blend of Gore + oracle.
Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰer- ‘hot’
Proto-Germanic *gurą ‘half-digested stomach contents’
Proto-West Germanic *gor
Old English gor ‘manure, dung, filth, muck, dirt’
Middle English gore ‘mud, muck’
English Gore
Latin ōrō ‘plead, beg’
Latin ōrāculum ‘a divine announcement, oracle’
Old French oracle ‘an oracle’
Middle French oracle
Middle English oracle ‘a shrine where hidden religious knowledge is…’
English oracle
Today it means
name Al Gore (born 1948), the 45th vice president of the United States (1993–2001), especially when viewed as a prophet of environmental catastrophe.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Goracle