Etymograph

English

gadroon

Gadroon comes from French godron, from Dutch kodde ‘piece of cylindrical wood’, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *geu ‘to curve, to bend’.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*geu‘to curve, to bend’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*kuddô‘bag’reconstructed
  3. Middle Dutchc. 1150–1500codde‘testicle, club’
  4. Dutchc. 1500–presentkodde‘piece of cylindrical wood’
  5. Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600goderon
  6. Frenchc. 1600–presentgodron
  7. Englishearliest quotation 1960gadroon

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*geu‘to curve, to bend’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*kuddô‘bag’reconstructed
  3. Middle Dutchc. 1150–1500codde‘testicle, club’
  4. Dutchc. 1500–presentkodde‘piece of cylindrical wood’
  5. Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600goderon
  6. Frenchc. 1600–presentgodron
  7. Englishearliest quotation 1960gadroon

Earliest quotation: 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing: “Owing possibly to some flaw in his mental make-up,…”

The story

Also probably related to goder (‘to pucker’).

Linked words

through Proto-Germanic *kuddô ‘bag’

cod, 3 more

Today it means

noun Any of a series of raised decorative curves used as adornments on the necks of vases, silverware, etc.

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

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *geu / gadroon

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