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Traditionally considered somehow derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *gel-(“to form into a ball; ball”) and thereby cognate with globus, glomus, Proto-Germanic*klumpô(“mass, lump, clump; clasp”), Proto-West Germanic*klott(“clod”) and others, (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?) but the precise derivations of this form and its cognates are all uncertain. Alternatively (or additionally) related to Lithuanianglė́bti(“to embrace, clasp”) via an extended root *glebʰ-; however, this etymology only works if glēba is the older form.
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Neapolitan: łiva(Cilento), ddźifa(Rivello), ddźẹfe(Lucania), tśéifə(Bari), ñifa(Lecce, prefixed with in-), ñofa(Salento, prefixed with -in and influenced by globus)
^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “glēba”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 264
Further reading
“glaeba”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“glaeba”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
glaeba in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.