ג־ל־ל

g-l-l “to roll; round”

Galilee is hag-gālîl, 'the circuit, district', from g-l-l 'to roll; circle'. Aramaic gulgaltā 'skull', Golgotha, is traditionally a reduplicated form of the same root, 'the round thing', but Wiktionary also compares Arabic jumjuma 'skull', which would point to a separate old word, so the pair is only possibly related.

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Words from this root 2

GalileeBiblical Hebrew → Koine Greek → Late Latin → Old French → Middle English → English
GolgothaAramaic → Koine Greek → Late Latin → English

Relatives outside the atlas

Biblical Hebrew	גַּלְגַּל	galgal	“wheel”
Biblical Hebrew	גִּלְגָּל	Gilgāl	“Gilgal, 'circle (of stones)'”
Biblical Hebrew	מְגִלָּה	məḡillāh	“scroll, 'a rolled thing'”
Biblical Hebrew	גֻּלְגֹּלֶת	gulgōleṯ	“skull; head (in a census)”
Aramaic	גְּלַל	gəlal	“to roll”