gowf
Scots
Alternative forms
- gowff
- golf, gouff (Middle Scots)
Etymology
From Middle Scots golf, from Middle Dutch colve, from Proto-West Germanic *kolbō, from Proto-Germanic *kulbaz (“round object”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“to form into a ball”).
Descendants
- → English: golf
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