Where does “tortell” come from?

tortell (Catalan) comes from Old French tortel, from Latin tortus, from Latin -tus, from Proto-Italic -tus, from Proto-Indo-European -tus — Derives action nouns from verb roots.

tortell (Catalan): king cake

Definitions

  1. king cake

Ancestry of “tortell”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Frenchtortel—
2Latintortustwisted, crooked; spun, whirled; bent, distorted
3Latin-tusForms the past participle of verbs; Forms...
4Proto-Italic-tus—
5Proto-Indo-European-tusDerives action nouns from verb roots
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tus →Every word from Latin -tus →Every word from Latin tortus →