1634: glove Jun 5 2019

As discussed yesterday, the word for 'glove' in many Germanic and Romantic languages is 'want', with language-specific twists. However, English's is obviously different, but it still belongs to it's own family of related words. 'Glove' dates back to Old English, but goes back all the way to Proto-Indo-European, from 'ga-' which signified collections, and 'lāp-' meaning 'flat', though not related to the English 'lap'. In Scots the word is 'gluve', and the Icelandic 'glófi'. Even in Middle English the word for a palm of the hand was 'lofe'.
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