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Etymology

Unknown, but possibly borrowed from a Celtic language. See English gombeen, from Irish gaimbín (“monetary interest”), from Proto-Celtic *kambos (“twisted, crooked”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ḱambos, *(s)kambos (“crooked”). If so, cognate to Latin cambiō from cambium borrowed from Gaulish cambion, whence English change and exchange.

More Old English words

• goldsmiþ
• goldwine
• goldwrecan
• goma
• gop
• gor
• gorettan
• gorian

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