English
ghost frog
Compound of ghost + frog.
Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰéysd-
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Proto-Germanic *gaistaz ‘terror’
Proto-West Germanic *gaist ‘ghost’
Old English gāst ‘breath’
Middle English gost ‘a spiritual being’
English ghost
Proto-Indo-European *prew- ‘to jump’
Proto-West Germanic *froggō
Old English frocga
Middle English frogge ‘a frog or toad’
English frog
Today it means
noun Any of a group of frogs in the family Heleophrynidae, which live in mountain streams in South Africa.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / ghost frog