Etymograph

English

galosh

Galosh comes from Old French galoche ‘a shoe with a wooden sole’.

  1. Old Frenchc. 842–1400galoche‘a shoe with a wooden sole’
  2. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500same form‘a clog or patten’
  3. Englishearliest quotation 1979galosh

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Old Frenchc. 842–1400galoche‘a shoe with a wooden sole’
  2. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500same form‘a clog or patten’
  3. Englishearliest quotation 1979galosh

Earliest quotation: 1979, Penelope Mortimer, About Time: An Aspect of Autobiography: “My mother, at the age of seventeen, took them…”

The story

From Middle English galoche, from Old French galoche (‘a shoe with a wooden sole’), but its further history is uncertain.uncertain The source flags this step as uncertain.

Every English word from Old French galoche

Today it means

noun An overshoe or boot worn in wet weather: A waterproof overshoe used to provide protection from rain or snow.

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

Etymograph / Old French galoche / galosh

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