The soft pink tissue in your mouth that holds your teeth in place, or sticky substances made from plant resins or other sources.
The mouth tissue comes from Old English 'goma.' The sticky substance 'gum' comes from Latin 'gummi,' borrowed from Egyptian or Arabic sources through Greek, referring to tree resins used in ancient times.
Gums as sticky substances literally traveled the Silk Road into English—ancient civilizations traded resins and tree saps, and these materials were so valuable and exotic that their names came all the way from Arabic and Egyptian languages into English.
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