Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *gel-der.
3. Proto-Indo-European *gól-
4. Proto-Germanic *kalanąder.
5. Proto-Germanic *kōluz
6. Proto-West Germanic *kōl(ī)
7. Old English cōl
8. Middle English cool
9. English cool
10. From Middle English cool, from Old English cōl (“cool, cold, tranquil, calm”), from Proto-West Germanic *kōl(ī), from Proto-Germanic *kōluz (“cool”), from *kalaną (“to be cold, to freeze”), Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“to be cold, to freeze”).
11. Cognates
12. Cognate with North Frisian kool, koul, kuul, kölj, kööl (“cold”), Saterland Frisian köil (“cool”), West Frisian koel (“cool”), Cimbrian khuul (“chilly, cool”), Dutch koel (“cool”), German kühl (“cool”), Low German köhl (“cool”), Luxembourgish kill (“cool”), Vilamovian kił (“cool”); also Latin gelū, gelum, gelus (“frost; chill, cold”), Belarusian хо́лад (xólad, “cold”), Bulgarian хлад (hlad, “chill, coolness”), Czech chlad (“cold”), Macedonian лад (lad, “shade; coolness”), Polish chłód (“cold”), Russian and Ukrainian хо́лод (xólod, “cold”), Serbo-Croatian хла̑д, hlȃd (“shade”), Sanskrit जड (jaḍa, “cold; stiff”), जल (jala, “water”). Related to cold. See: Middle English Nouns '
cool', Latin Nouns '
gelū', Bulgarian Nouns '
хлад', Czech Nouns '
chlad', Polish Nouns '
chłód'.
Verbs referencing "cool"
English Nouns
kuudere.