jabalina

javelin

Borrowed from French javeline, from Old French javelline, diminutive of javelot (“spear”), from Vulgar Latin *gabalottus, from Gaulish *gabalos (compare Old Irish gabul (“fork”), Welsh gafl), from Proto-Celtic *gabalos (“fork, forked branch”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰabʰlos (“fork, branch of tree”).