köken: Borrowed from Medieval Latin dēmōn, daemōn (“lar, familiar spirit, guardian spirit”), from Ancient Greek δαίμων (daímōn, “dispenser, god, protective spirit”) from δαίομαι (daíomai, “to divide”) + -μων (-mōn), probably motivated as “dispenser of fate”.
köken: Uncertain. *Traditionally derived from Proto-Indo-European *gʷel- or *gʷelh₁- (“throat”), with assumed cognates in Sanskrit गल (gala, “throat, neck”), Old Armenian կուլ- (kul-), Russian глотка (glotka, “throat”), Persian گلو (galu, “throat”), and Northern Kurdish gewrî, gerû (“throat”). Kroonen reconstructs *gʷlh₁-eh₂. *However, De Vaan doubts that *gʷel- can phonetically give rise to Latin gul-.…