vulgar
VUHL-ger · adjective
Origin
From Middle English vulgare, from Latin vulgāris, an adjective built on volgus/vulgus, meaning 'the mob' or 'common folk,' ultimately from a Proto-Indo-European root reconstructed as *welH-.
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The same Proto-Indo-European root is said to connect to Welsh gwala ('plenty, sufficiency'), Ancient Greek ἁλία (halía, 'assembly') and εἰλέω (eiléō, 'to compress'), and Proto-Slavic *valъ — words clustered around ideas of gathering or massing together.
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