Etymograph

English

google

Google (to search) comes from Google, the search engine.

  1. English1500–presentGoogle1‘search engine’
  2. Englishtodaygoogle1

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, English google

Lineage

  1. English1500–presentGoogleWiktionary, English google‘search engine’
  2. EnglishtodaygoogleWiktionary, English google

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Today it means

verb To bowl (a cricket ball) so that it performs a googly (“a ball by a leg-break bowler that spins from off to leg (to a right-handed batsman), unlike a normal leg-break delivery”).

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “google”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

Etymograph / English Google / google