Where does “xifonada” come from?
xifonada (Catalan) comes from French chiffonnade, from French chiffonner, from French chiffon, from French chiffe, from Middle French chiffe, from Old French chipe, from Middle English chip, from Old English ċipp — to split; divide; germinate; sprout; to split;...
xifonada (Catalan): chiffonnade finely-shredded vegetables
Definitions
- chiffonnade finely-shredded vegetables
Ancestry of “xifonada”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | chiffonnade | a shredded food (especially ham) |
| 2 | French | chiffonner | to crumple, crease; to bother, to perplex |
| 3 | French | chiffon | rag; scrap |
| 4 | French | chiffe | rag; drip |
| 5 | Middle French | chiffe | cloth, old rag |
| 6 | Old French | chipe | rag; bit, scrap |
| 7 | Middle English | chip | fragment, worthless thing; chip, shard, fragment |
| 8 | Old English | ċipp | chip; small piece of wood; chip, splinter,... |
| 9 | Old English | ċippian | to cut; hew |
| 10 | Proto-Germanic | kipp- | to chop; split; to cut; carve; hack; chop |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | ǵey- | to split; divide; germinate; sprout; to split;... |